I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
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Fictional but true. Sorta.
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Cup o' java, anyone?
"worst of the worst' seeks U.S. assistance, oooops
http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/
People with the worst luck in the world.
Good Morning.
There's a movie in there, for sure.
Title: "Life is Shitty".
Worked all night...drank too much coffee...need VALIUM!
Good work, Diane.
The translation widget does have Croatian; I'll bet it can really screw that up!
Feeling irie.
Herbert's column is disturbing and tragic:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/1....html?th&
emc=th
Is that a webpage widget or something on your OS?
Here's one that sometimes works OK
http://www.rjecnik.net/
It's good for common phrases.
Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | January 17, 2009 | JAY REEVES
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama was colder than Alaska, water fountains froze into ice sculptures in South Carolina and Florida shivered through a brush of Arctic air blast that deadened car batteries in the Northeast and prompted scattered Midwest power outages.
Alabama doesn't have Sarah and Bristol to warm it up.
Thanks, Marcellina.
It's a Mac "Dashboard widget" OS appendage.
The Dictionary widget is da bomb!
On Rachel's teevee show last night they had a professor from Seton Hall discussing how the U.S. is lying about claims that people released from Gitmo have returned to the battlefield.
It was kinda wonky but informative.
I only know maybe 6 words in Croatian, none of which are practical, including jebem ti mater.
People with the worst luck in the world.
Good Morning.
Diane C. Barking-Mad
Would it ever occur to Bush to use his pardon power to reduce the injustice in the world, rather than to reward various cronies? I guess we'll see.
Celebrating their victory in Somalia.
Rachel and Keith are not going quiet into Dumbya's good night. Makes me happy.
Meanwhile further over there
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090.../
as_afghanistan
obama live on cspan in philly, 10am. be there.
the lakota language very nearly missed being disappeared.
dobar dan!
On Rachel's teevee show last night they had a professor from Seton Hall discussing how the U.S. is lying about claims that people released from Gitmo have returned to the battlefield.
It was kinda wonky but informative.
HoneyBearKelly
What is it, something like 35 of the 65 released were "captured" again?
That is so bogus. I'm glad Rachel took that bs on.
So send me lucky vibes- I am going to a local train station (and nearby Cajun Restaurant!) to greet our new president as the train makes a rolling stop. Got my sign made: HOPE, HON! I hope I can get even close...
I once heard an aphorism, presented as Chinese: "It is better to ride the horse in the direction it is going." This seems to me sage advice as regards Afghanistan.
Remember when Gordon Brown was leading the world out of financial crisis?
http://
business.timesonline.co.u...icle5535887.ece
Morning, kids.
I'm officially tired of the cold.
Good Luck, lovepat; keep warm!
I'll bet, Molly.
Bok! Kako si? Molim, jedan Burek!
I only know maybe 6 words in Croatian, none of which are practical, including jebem ti mater.
Marcellina | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 9:37 am
Back when I was trying to study Serbo/Croat/Bosnian, the words picked up usually dealt with death, war, destruction. And elections.
I have my layers upon layers planned!
Molly have you seen Slumdog Millionaire yet?
I know you would love it.
[[[[lucky vibes]]]]]
How is it so high?
"(CBS) President Bush will leave office as one of the most unpopular departing presidents in history, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll showing Mr. Bush's final approval rating at 22 percent.
Seventy-three percent say they disapprove of the way Mr. Bush has handled his job as president over the last eight years.
Mr. Bush's final approval rating is the lowest final rating for an outgoing president since Gallup began asking about presidential approval more than 70 years ago. "
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blog...val-
rating.html
The unwonky version is that you just assume the administration is lying about everything.
dobar dan, jdw!
We're enjoying a sunny 50F day today, in the land of the burek 
good morning. i'm going to destroy my geek creds and lose all your respect. still: BG is a boring, dragging, downright silly show that takes itself far more seriously than it deserves. did i mention: boring? i rented the first two seasons, and last night i thought i'd try to be like the kewl kidz, so i watched a few of the newer eps on sci-fi. i'll never get those two hours back again. and man- could the directors abuse the construct of 'pregnant pause' anymore? i don't see how. go ahead, flame away. i probably deserve it and am just old and unhip.
I asked a woman in a markt for honey, without specifying "bee honey" and got the damnedest dirty look. "Frisch!"
plantsman
I was working on some copper pipes for this woman as a plumber. (Jack of all trades, master of none, me.) Needed to solder them but there was a constant drip of water. So, I needed some bread, mashed into ball, pressed into the copper pipe to stop the pipe up long enough from the constant drip to finish. (Old plumber's trick.) So I asked the woman while really struggling under her cabinets with her leaning over if she had any bread. She looked at me very concerned and said, "Well, sure honey, I have some bread."
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I had to pull this up and repost here. It still cracks me the fuck up to this day.
The White Tiger won the Man Booker Prize -- I have no idea what that recommends.
Got'em Marcellina! THANKS!
kava!!!!
hey, it's kinda like polish!
"It is better to ride the horse in the direction it is going." This seems to me sage advice as regards Afghanistan.
plantsman
Um, in regards to Afghanistan, that's not a good idea.
Do you have any idea what happens in a buzkash scrum?
"dupa" is my Polish word, supposedly.
Get Afghanistan Right!
I posted a link a few days ago from Salon that said we've already lost there due to fraud by the usual suspects, Halliburton, Dyncorp and the rest of those crooks.
President Bush will leave office as one of the most unpopular departing presidents in history, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll showing Mr. Bush's final approval rating at 22 percent.
That just means Broder's boy still has a couple days to bounce! Comeback time, baby!
"Reporting from Sacramento -- State Controller John Chiang announced today that his office would suspend tax refunds, welfare checks, student grants and other payments owed to Californians starting Feb. 1, as a result of the state's cash crisis. ... The payments to be frozen include nearly $2 billion in tax refunds; $300 million in cash grants for needy families and the aged, blind and disabled; and $13 million in grants for college students.
"
So how do you like me now!
I'll look for it, HBK.
Remember when Gordon Brown was leading the world out of financial crisis?
that was when bush was going to bring us PITME and compassionate conservatism, right? so, no.
plantsman,
An even more in-depth piece about Zimbabwe here.
It used to have some of the most productive farms in Africa. All ruined deliberately.
Well, I meant it as a guide for opium-production policy, not literally.
"We're enjoying a sunny 50F day today, in the land of the burek."
fantastično!
Yeah, Croatians understand about 60% of Polish or Russian, and about 90% of Slovenian. After learning from tapes, I couldn't understand a word most Dalmatians were speaking ... dozens of dialects all over the place.
BG is a boring, dragging, downright silly show that takes itself far more seriously than it deserves.
sit by me.
Do you also hate Star Trek?
To dispossess the white settlers and make them leave, wasn't it?
"'m officially tired of the cold.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 9:42 am | #
"
It's all relative. My brother in Northern Minnesota reported on Monday that he went to work in -55 F weather with a light wind which probably socked the palpable temp even lower. Here in Minnesota, we have having balmy days in the 40's and the lower 50's - it just plain weird.
The NYT has also done a number of articles on the hyperinflation here, plantsman.
It's 7 degrees here in the County of Kings.
I forgot to buy milk last night so I must go out.
I was right next to a Whole Foods too.
Gah!
Well, I meant it as a guide for opium-production policy, not literally.
plantsman
Oh, never mind
*puts crop away*
"Here in Minnesota, we have having balmy days in the 40's and the lower 50's - it just plain weird.
montanaheadcold | 01.17.09 - 9:48 am | # "
I meant "here in Montana."
What's "BG"? (super geek here)
dfh: i see that some translations are universal!
bush sucks. = bush sucks.
P O'Neill always posts the most cheerful links.
That just means Broder's boy still has a couple days to bounce! Comeback time, baby!
sdf (Stu)
The torture pardons will allow bipratisan healing
/broder
"It is better to ride the horse in the direction it is going." This seems to me sage advice as regards Afghanistan.
plantsman
it is better to get the wind knocked out of you and suffer a little blow to your pride and wallet, and jump off that horse, when it's headed at top speed to flaming death off a steep cliff with a river of armegeddon at the bottom. imho.
Battlestar Gaggactica.
"I meant "here in Montana."
u aren't sure where you are? musta been a hell of a night.
What's "BG"? (super geek here)
lovepat
Battlestar Galaxative
HBK Johnson is right -- "Slumdog" is indeed good. I would see it again if movies were not $12.50 in NYC now.
anybody been around one of those amazon kindle's? i see they're sold out with a 7 week wait.
""I meant "here in Montana."
u aren't sure where you are? musta been a hell of a night.
jdw | 01.17.09 - 9:51 am | # "
I'm working off a little gastro-intestinal issue. Some terminator virus entered the tract and appears to making me its home.
"he went to work in -55 F weather with a light wind which probably socked the palpable temp even lower. "
ok, let's not start this again.....
Morning, all.
Too uncaffeinated to blogwhore. You're grateful, I now.
So -- are we hating on anybody I should know about at the moment?
I think the whole idea of a "Surge" in Afghanistan is classic "fighting the last war." Seems to me if you want roads you send people who know how to build roads, not fundies who can't abide abortion.
chicago dyke..
BEE GEE? ..... BATTLE STAR GALACTICA!
I don't get it either... my brother loves it.
But I think there is a large and growing group that doesn't....
"So -- are we hating on anybody I should know about at the moment?
steve simels | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 9:52 am | # "
The weather seems to be in the cross-hair ... or not.
The weather is ass.
Wait.
It's colder in Brooklyn than in Montana?
WTF?
"So -- are we hating on anybody I should know about at the moment?"
the chimp is always worthy, and america hates him!
Mr. Bush's final approval rating is the lowest final rating for an outgoing president since Gallup began asking about presidential approval more than 70 years ago.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2...Home;
topStories
The big blob of supercold air out of the prairie Provinces is indeed snailing eastward.
simels,
What movies did you see yesterday? HBK and I saw "Slumdog" and loved it.
sorry, plants. i see above i took what you said out of context.
Do you also hate Star Trek?
JR,
that's the sad thing: i am a big trekkie, pathetically so. and most ironically, i am a big fan of DS9, and the guy who had a big hand in that is an exec producer for BGalactica. i like renting fluff and turning off the brain every once in a while. but being bored like that? i dunno, i guess ronald has just lost his touch, or something. dood, just end the series already. the preachifying was particularly grating and unimaginative. it's not sci-fi, it's a show about simplistic metaphysical platitudes.
chicago dyke: i don't get *any* sci-fi.
I haven't watched the new BSG and now I'm glad I don't.
Somebody twittered who the 5th cylon is and would have ruined it for me.
Yeah. About that 22% approval rating Gallup Poll... can Holden get a pony for that? I'd love one last pony.
"Wait.
It's colder in Brooklyn than in Montana?
WTF?
HoneyBearKelly | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 9:54 am | # "
Yes, but Brooklyn is more interesting in the cold or in any kind of weather. I was just there last week, in the rain. I would have preferred snow, came dressed for snow, and ended up sodden and soaking.
dfh: Je li Hrvatska slavi?
"can Holden get a pony for that? I'd love one last pony."
oh yes, we must have a very special pony!
Battlestar Galaxative
LOL!
Not making myself clearly understood seems to be a feature, rather than a bug.
It hasn't really snowed here in years.
Battlestar Gaggactica.
plantsman | 01.17.09 - 9:50 am | #
6969 A Space Odyssey
Arne Naess has died.
"Arne Naess has died."
The deep ecologist?
PornStar Galactica
A Holden Pony for a Gallop Poll. :- )
Would it ever occur to Bush to use his pardon power to reduce the injustice in the world, rather than to reward various cronies? I guess we'll see.
DFH in Dubrovnik | 01.17.09 - 9:37 am | #
gawd, i saw a repub congressman on cspan. he was bitchin about all the drug dealers and murderers shrub had pardoned but not the two border officers who shot drug smugglers in the back and covered it up.
"he went to work in -55 F weather with a light wind which probably socked the palpable temp even lower. "
ok, let's not start this again.....
jdw | 01.17.09 - 9:52 am | #
One of the more bizarre disputes we've had here.
What movies did you see yesterday? HBK and I saw "Slumdog" and loved it.
euph was in a right dither.
Simels -
Saw my boys Magic Christian last night. Secret Weapon: Clem Burke. It's like Keith Moon never went away!
jdw, Not celebrating yet, but they love Obama, can't wait to roll out the red carpet for him.
Ya, "Returning to the battlefield" is defined as saying anything negative about the USA. No snark. No shit.
"Lawrence Wilkerson, top aide and later chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell: We had this confluence of characters—and I use that term very carefully—that included people like Powell, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, and so forth, which allowed one perception to be "the dream team." It allowed everybody to believe that this Sarah Palin–like president—because, let’s face it, that’s what he was—was going to be protected by this national-security elite.."
Chimpy, the pride of Yale and Harvard.
The deep ecologist?
montanaheadcold
Yes, the philosopher and eco-theorist.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/1...r=1&
ref=science
HBK,
Could be worse. It's -21F in Caribou, ME.
I like a woman who starts a blog post with "I sh*t you not."
The big blob of supercold air out of the prairie Provinces is indeed snailing eastward.
plantsman
They can fucking have it. We're tired of it.
I think it was Christmas 95 or so that Thers and I flew home into 14" of snow. Plane landed in Baltimore and we had to take a train the rest of the way. Yuck.
Does this dude not remember that John Wayne Gacy was a clown?
BTW -- that "historian" Michael Beschloss on MSNBC this morning said that Bill Clinton's popularity ratings were low when he left office.
This does not coincide with my memory of things. Without Googling -- haven't had my coffee yet -- does anybody know?
Žao nam je, svijet.
Molly I'm afraid that Obama is going to keep those "faith based initiative" programs in place.
Flame away.
Could be worse. It's -21F in Caribou, ME.
res ipsa loquitur
That's exactly what temp it was here in Minneapolis yesterday when I got up to go to work.
I think it was Christmas 95 or so that Thers and I flew home into 14" of snow. Plane landed in Baltimore and we had to take a train the rest of the way. Yuck.
Molly Ivors
Planes, trains, and automobiles.
"This does not coincide with my memory of things. Without Googling -- haven't had my coffee yet -- does anybody know?"
bullshit. 68(?) iirc, and tied with sluggo. it's at the gallup link above.
BTW -- that "historian" Michael Beschloss on MSNBC this morning said that Bill Clinton's popularity ratings were low when he left office.
This does not coincide with my memory of things. Without Googling -- haven't had my coffee yet -- does anybody know?
steve simels
He's wrong.
I think it was Christmas 95 or so that Thers and I flew home into 14" of snow.
It was actually 5" of snow. Thers just told you that it was 14".
Around 65% favorable when he left office, iirc.
I didn't bring my plants in from the cold and one doesn't look like it's going to make it. I should have put a garbage bag over it but have been in such a deep funk since the layoffs at work, wasn't thinking about it.
I have a cabin in the North Cascades real close to the Canada place. 30 below zero there one time. The tamarack tree trunks started splitting. Sounded like gunshots.
Simels he's wrong.
Could be worse. It's -21F in Caribou, ME.
They're having a heat wave.
Yesterday it was -33.
BTW -- that "historian" Michael Beschloss on MSNBC this morning said that Bill Clinton's popularity ratings were low when he left office.
What is the word,oh yeah, that's bullshit.
Molly I'm afraid that Obama is going to keep those "faith based initiative" programs in place.
Flame away.
HoneyBearKelly
I tend to agree.
800 grand for a clown with a degree from clown college, to promote something that doesn't work.
It's a perfect metaphor, isn't it?
Meanwhile, it sounds like the poor in Calif are just plain out of luck.
Clinton left office with a high approval rating of 65%
Report: US Game Sales Up 19% in '08; December Sales Hit $5B Digital Media Wire
opportunity!
games and booze are up. gotta get plastered and entertain oneself, especially in bad times.
Billy C. was in the 60's at the end of his 2nd term.
adam, does your face feel like it's falling off when it's that cold. walking home last night that's how I felt -- and it was only two blocks from the train.
Back from walking the dog. 4° and v windy, so if wind chill existed it would feel even colder.
We startled a flock of mergansers paddling in the little spot of unfrozen water on the bay, There must have been a hundred of them.
Apparently mergansers hate warm weather to the extent that they will congregate in unfrozen bits of rivers once all of the lakes freeze over.
plastic transmits cold pretty well, a piece of spun-bond "frost cloth" would be better. Also called "floating row covers."
If by "low" he means "highest ratings ever," then yes.
"Mr. Bush's final approval rating is the lowest final rating for an outgoing president since Gallup began asking about presidential approval more than 70 years ago.
The rating is far below the final ratings of recent two-term presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, who both ended their terms with a 68 percent approval rating, according to CBS News polling."
worst.ever.
Beschloss needs to be clobbered on that mistake.
http://uspolitics.about.com/od/
p...al_approval.htm
Michael Beschloss is one of those "gossipy" historians. His schtick is telling racy backstories, most of which can probably be Snopesed to death.
adam, does your face feel like it's falling off when it's that cold. walking home last night that's how I felt -- and it was only two blocks from the train.
res ipsa loquitur
A few winters ago my car wouldn't start at the gas station 4 blocks from home, and it was 20 below. Ran home and almost didn't make it. FUCK was it cold.
Pony! Pony! Pony!
Libation or whatever to plantsman and Troutski
euph was in a right dither.
plantsman
but for those of us who are neutral in the Great War over WindChill, it was highly amusing. sorry i didn't have a phat blunt to go along with reading that thread.
"The deep ecologist?
montanaheadcold
Yes, the philosopher and eco-theorist.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/1...r=1& ref=science
JT | 01.17.09 - 10:01 am | # "
A loss for sure. At least, he didn't die prematurely. Too bad some Mother God can't confer another century on folks like him. Great obituary in the NYT, if there is such a thing.
Sarah Palin–like president—because, let’s face it, that’s what he was—was going to be protected by this national-security elite.."
jdw | 01.17.09 - 10:01 am | #
The thing is, he surrounded himself with sociopaths who wanted war and could manipulate the insecure idiot anyway they pleased.
As long as shrub was making the final decision it was still the decision of an idiot.
The rating is far below the final ratings of recent two-term presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, who both ended their terms with a 68 percent approval rating, according to CBS News polling."
worst.ever.
jdw
Huh. My memory is that CLinton left office with approval in the 60's; Reagan in the high 30's.
plastic transmits cold pretty well, a piece of spun-bond "frost cloth" would be better. Also called "floating row covers."
plantsman
Dang, and I had some of that in my back pocket.
The cold spell has broken here, up to 20 already.
btw have you seen my big red headed pecker?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5...h?v=5n-
eBZOxSbo
Gotta take the 8yo to her karate polaganje -- she's going for a green belt today.
Later dudes and dudettes
but for those of us who are neutral in the Great War over WindChill, it was highly amusing. sorry i didn't have a phat blunt to go along with reading that thread.
chicago dyke
I was laughing so hard my sides hurt.
Morning again peeps.
I love laundry day. I actually feel like I'm accomplishing something while not doing very much at.
Flame away.
HoneyBearKelly
I have one for you, but their server seems to be down right now...
have you seen my big red headed pecker?
1Watt, Hermit
NO FLIRTING!
FUCK was it cold.
Exactly. I measure cold not by temperature, but by the number of times I mutter "fuck" when forced to walk around in it. Not too bad a winter so far by that standard...
Oh gawd, someone had Ken Duberstein on to tell the tragic story of Ronnie Raygun walking into the stripped-bare Oval Office on Jan. 20 -- and what a deeply symbolic, moving moment it was. It was to plotz.
Great War over WindChill, it was highly amusing
Yes, it was. You could just feel the testosterone flowing.
"adam, does your face feel like it's falling off when it's that cold. walking home last night that's how I felt -- and it was only two blocks from the train.
res ipsa loquitur"
Spittle at -50 freezes before it hits the ground, regardless of its trajectory.
Planes, trains, and automobiles.
MP
"Those aren't pillows!" /cue football music/
funniest travel movie evah.
If by "low" he means "highest ratings ever," then yes.
Culture of TrÜth | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:07 am | #
That's what I thought.
What a tool...
"Huh. My memory is that CLinton left office with approval in the 60's"
may depend on the poll. i seem to recall the same, in aggragate, that bc was more popular then sluggo.
but, it also seems to me that during bc's presidency the major polling orgs began to break out *personal* and *job* approvals into two catagories, so they could say that while bc did a good job he was a bad, bad person.
Oh gawd, someone had Ken Duberstein on to tell the tragic story of Ronnie Raygun walking into the stripped-bare Oval Office on Jan. 20
It was 1995, and he'd wandered off again. Nancy had to run in and put him back in his crib.
but for those of us who are neutral in the Great War over WindChill, it was highly amusing.
I loved how folks got so wound just watching it.
Welcome to the geek olympics.
but for those of us who are neutral in the Great War over WindChill, it was highly amusing. sorry i didn't have a phat blunt to go along with reading that thread.
I was laughing so hard my sides hurt.
I couldn't get the boy to take the bait when I linked to a NOAA/NWS site explaining wind chill as by that time he'd been rode hard and put away wet.
I'm amazed sometimes by what people get picked on for here.
but, it also seems to me that during bc's presidency the major polling orgs began to break out *personal* and *job* approvals into two catagories, so they could say that while bc did a good job he was a bad, bad person.
jdw
Yep. Funny how that worked.
Gromit -
Tell these nice people about the wind off of Lake Champlain. Now THAT is fucking cold...
doviđenja!
euph is cute as a button in person.
I'm amazed sometimes by what people get picked on for here.
HoneyBearKelly | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:13 am | #
Try saying "David Bowie is overrated."
Oh no. I can assure everyone here that bush was both a bad president and a very, very, bad person....
The thing is, he surrounded himself with sociopaths who wanted war and could manipulate the insecure idiot anyway they pleased.
As long as shrub was making the final decision it was still the decision of an idiot.
pigboy
*
...this was never so undeniably evident during the last week of exit interviews. No. fucking. excuse.
Yes, it was. You could just feel the testosterone flowing.
It was hard to know the regulars from the trolls without a scorecard too!
I think that must explained why 'its just me again' eventually outed himself.
I want some of that music from "Slumdog". Sort of this weird Bollywood-hip-hop hybrid thing.
we've got bitter cold and blizzardy, snow filled winds this morning. i bet Barndog and Vicki are hiding under the covers still.
obama live on cspan in philly!
My daughter was in Chicago last night with some of her IU criminal justice classmates. They came out of a pizza place (first time for her eating Chicago Style pizza) and this lady with 4 kids came up and asked the group for some money.
She'd just been evicted from her apartment and had to get to a shelter. The girls gave them the left over pizza, cash and a couple of jackets. The lady wanted to give my daughter her wedding ring, but the kid refused and gave her an extra $100 ( her emergency stash).
There may be hope for this world after all.
This Obama train tour is really choking me up.
Beschsloss has an undergraduate degree in Political Science and an MBA from Harvard (?).
He's never been considered an 'academic historian'.
.
"Try saying "David Bowie is overrated.""
Possibly, but Johnnie Cash is really overrated.
Tell these nice people about the wind off of Lake Champlain. Now THAT is fucking cold...
Yes it is. And when you go out in it, you get slapped with frozen fish blown out of the lake, and covered in hair blown off of the Canadian polar bears.
MBA from Harvard?
So he's a dumbass?
I think that must explained why 'its just me again' eventually outed himself.
Who is he/she?
(Fuck off, Haloscan.)
I have a Bowie "greatest Hits" compilation that II like.
It was hard to know the regulars from the trolls without a scorecard too!
yeah, too ad trademark wasn't around to help out with that.
chi dyke ~
*Mwah. Just rolled outta bed. It's my mom's 72nd tomorrow; I have to get motated because I'm having a party for her.
Making sirloin pasties and a carrot cake (her favorites)!
techno dance is a great way to keep warm, as it pretty much consists of bouncing up and down in a crowd
Try saying "David Bowie is overrated."
"This Obama train tour is really choking me up."
wow. that lady had a hard time getting thru the intro.
Don Cornelius on the Obama train playing some Barry White would be fucking funny.
Sort of this weird Bollywood-hip-hop hybrid thing.
I love that stuff!
No offense to all you hahvhad mbas, but you're going to have to live with this the rest of your lives...
Here's a chart showing Ronnie's end-of-term approval in the mid-fifties. Meanwhile, an an unsourced report says Ronnie left office at 63%. But the same page gives Dubya 34%, which is complete bullshit.
I know at least one poll had Ronnie in teh 30's at the end of his term, and I stick by that number.
Good morning all.
I thought I'd check in before I take the mooks to the bark park.
Good morning, everybody.
Jeesh, I'm already weepy.
.
Try saying "David Bowie is overrated."
Well, yeah, compared to the Cowsills.
When did this great war over Windchill happen?
I miss more than I get these days, and dr. mrs. sdf still thinks I spend too much time on the bloggz.
(Harumphs.)
"Network VP Dismisses Military Pundits Scandal: ‘Everyone Understands’ Pentagon Spreads Propaganda»
Yesterday, the Department of Defense Inspector General released its report on the military analyst program first revealed by the New York Times last April. The report said there was “insufficient evidence to conclude that OASD(PA) conceived of or undertook the type of disciplined public relations effort” alleged by the program’s critics. The report concluded that the program “was not a secret or covert effort,” and thus not propaganda, which it defined as activities that “are covert, that is, the communications do not reveal to the target audience the government’s role in sponsoring the material.”[...]
.....The access came with a condition. Participants were instructed not to quote their briefers directly or otherwise describe their contacts with the Pentagon." http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01...opaganda-media/
simels,
HBK described "Slumdog" as "A Baz Lurman movie if Baz Lurman made good movies".
I love that stuff!
Marcellina
Me too. There's some good stuff on YouTube.
Making sirloin pasties
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WTF? that sounds so ungrandmotherylike
I want some of that music from "Slumdog". Sort of this weird Bollywood-hip-hop hybrid thing.
res ipsa loquitur
Did you stay for the dance number after the credits? That was a blast!
euph was in a right dither.
plantsman
but for those of us who are neutral in the Great War over WindChill, it was highly amusing. sorry i didn't have a phat blunt to go along with reading that thread.
chicago dyke, ungeeked | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:07 am
it was just bizarre. I understand why some people think that weather people overstate weather to get people to watch local news or whatnot, but getting annoyed over windchill because you didn't get it? Odd.
res, I guess it's cool to say, seeing as it be on the thread — remember a gravatar of a South Park type cartoon man, in an orange shirt?
Making sirloin pasties
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
No Flirting!
Cripes! What have I wrought?
(formerly IJMA and a few other fun loving other nyms).
.
res: i luvrs me some international hip hop ethinic i electronic funk i don't know what what instrument that is. "world music," or whatever is just perfect for days when you need a jump start.
Try saying "David Bowie is overrated."
steve simels
you come sit by me. altho, married real well, for a scrawny white dood with funny eyes. immmmmmman.
Sirloin on your NIPPLES?
you're going to have to live with this the rest of your lives...
Culture of TrÜth
Dumbya HAS done two things for us:
1. De-fused the "H-Bomb" for the foreseeable future (two generations, at least), AND
2. Destroyed the Republican party for the foreseeable future (hopefully until I'm dead and buried).
/falls off chair laughing
but getting annoyed over windchill because you didn't get it? Odd.
Buckeye ...
No, I understood what he was *trying* to say, but by that time everything had taken a hard left into silly and I was laughing too hard.
It's a cornish meat pie.
Very good.
You make them individually; it's a milk-based pie crust with meat and root vegetables. Very labor-intensive, but perfect for Winter, and perfect for football.
Morning, all.
it's just me again outed itself?
No, I understood what he was *trying* to say, but by that time everything had taken a hard left into silly and I was laughing too hard.
He's a sweet kid; just needs a lesson in hole digging.
you come sit by me. altho, married real well, for a scrawny white dood with funny eyes. immmmmmman.
Your being a traitor to your sexual orientation.
Damn, I'm getting hungry reading this thread.
Heh, there you are. Hope you don't mind my mentioning you.
I knew you meant a Cornish Pasty, but it was too good too pass up.
Ambinder is twittering from the train.
sdf I don't know.
I went off to do stuff for dead people because it was making me want to hurl.
You know it's got to be bad when I'd rather look through death certificates, trust agreements, POA's and corporate resolutions.
I won't try too hard to defend BSG (is it pretentious? sure, but it doesn't ruin it for me), other than to say I appreciate the attempt at "realism" and intricate storylines. And it is so much better than other shows that try to do this kind of Sci-Fi/Fantastic running storyline (e.g. Lost and the absolutely godawful Heroes, which just absolutely ruined a potentially good concept).
None of them measure up to Firefly, of course, but it doesn't look like there's anything we can do about that but cry.
Sort of this weird Bollywood-hip-hop hybrid thing.
res ipsa loquitur
Hard to say without hearing it, but I suspect you are talking about a genre called "Goa"
it's just me again outed itself?
Like you, it turns out to be just another Steve Simels sockpuppet.
I'm an alligator, I'm a mama-papa coming for you
I'm the space invader, I'll be a rock 'n' rollin' bitch for you
Keep your mouth shut,
you're squawking like a pink monkey bird
And I'm busting up my brains for the words
it's just me again outed itself?
Yep. One of my favorites from EschaCon 1.
That's all I'll say.
res: i luvrs me some international hip hop ethinic i electronic funk i don't know what what instrument that is.
chic dyke,
Did you see the movie? You would definitely like the music. I am buying me some right now.
you come sit by me. altho, married real well, for a scrawny white dood with funny eyes. immmmmmman.
chicago dyke, ungeeked | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:19 am | #
It has always been a source of some annoyance for me that a gay guy is married to the most beautiful woman in the world.
she said "root."
Agent Orange!
He had a THIRD nym he used for a while, too.
I've met him. Very nice, interesting man.
Like you, it turns out to be just another Steve Simels sockpuppet.
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:21 am | #
At this rate, we're going to run out of cake!
but getting annoyed over windchill because you didn't get it? Odd.
Buckeye ...
No, I understood what he was *trying* to say, but by that time everything had taken a hard left into silly and I was laughing too hard.
JR, kerosene and a match | 01.17.09 - 10:19 am | #
Well, I guess I missed what he was trying to say.
But at least he found humor in it, at the end, noting that the matter he may have come from appeared to be denser than others.
OK, I cut the corn tortillas in half to around the side of the pot to bake in layers. Fuck the rolled up method.
Hard to say without hearing it, but I suspect you are talking about a genre called "Goa"
JR,
Very possible, JR. I am a music illiterate, so I will take your word for it.
...this was never so undeniably evident during the last week of exit interviews. No. fucking. excuse.
Nancy Willing | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:14 am | #
they were cringe worthy for sure and another fine example of interviewers NOT doing their jobs... and even with their kind treatment he looked the fool he is.
she said "root."
plantsman
Not as in "mandrake," but just you wait.
Iman could have simels if she played her cards right.
I was gonna say, sirloin pasties conjures up a very strange but rather tantalizing image.
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, have you thought back to the 2008 election? Have you asked yourself who was responsible for that loss? Have you asked yourself who really should shoulder the blame and the burden for the defeat of Senator McCain? A lot of people have been speculating this, a lot of postmortems on the election. Let's go to the BBC. BBC World Service, host Stephen Sackur spoke with former McCain campaign manager Rick Davis and asked Rick Davis on whose shoulders rests the burden of the McCain defeat.
DAVIS: We didn't successfully reach out to them. I mean, but you look at the leadership John McCain gave which is counter to the direction that the party was headed, when you have the Rush Limbaughs of the world who, you know, literally almost feed the nativist attitude toward immigration reform, what do you think the Hispanic voter, the Latino voter is gonna remember? They're gonna remember the attacks, not the efforts by people like John McCain to try and reform.
RUSH: So there you have it, Rick Davis, the campaign manager for McCain, has dumped on my shoulders the reason McCain lost and others like me alienated Hispanic voters. This is so wrong on so many levels, but it explains why this campaign was so inept. A brief time-out. Just wanted you to hear that so you could stew over it.
I hope the GOP never purges itself of scum like you, Limpballs. This will guarantee that they'll self-destruct in the not too distant future.
But at least he found humor in it, at the end, noting that the matter he may have come from appeared to be denser than others.
Buckeye ... | 01.17.09 - 10:22 am | #
He's a sweetheart, actually. And he's curious about stuff. He just says some silly shit sometimes and then gets stuck trying to defend it.
Enchilada casserole tastes just as good.
Fuck, it's exciting as hell that Chimpy and Crashcart are finally leaving.
Obama has the rhetorical skills of a very effective clergyman.
He reminds me of a priest I used to know.
It's weird, because he's the polar opposite of Bush.
Agent Orange!
I was just thinking of you and the tour you gave us of Philly at the first EschaCon. Welcome back.
It was more hip hop than Goa though.
It was like the music on that series Trance Planet.
Try saying "David Bowie is overrated."
Well, yeah, compared to the Cowsills.
MP
You mean you didn't like "The Girl, The Rain, The Park, and Everything"?
Huh.
JR,
HBK can more accurately describe it.
Enchilada casserole tastes just as good.
Indeed, it does.
I find that I really, really dislike and distrust the word "leadership".
I don't normally pray, so I'll say I hope no crazies do anything untoward to the Obamas before The Inauguration.
chic dyke,
Did you see the movie? You would definitely like the music. I am buying me some right now.
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:21 am | #
I'll have to check that out (not really interested in the movie). I did like the soundtrack to Monsoon Wedding.
Fuck, it's exciting as hell that Chimpy and Crashcart are finally leaving.
MP
They're going to need that time to fumigate.
I find that I really, really dislike and distrust the word "leadership".
Marcellina
Not as much as I dislike "homeland", I'd wager.
OK now you all have to tell us curious ones what thread this all occurred on.
I was gonna say, sirloin pasties conjures up a very strange but rather tantalizing image.
shrimplate
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definately the 'comeup and taste me sometime' variety
Agent Orange!
I was just thinking of you and the tour you gave us of Philly at the first EschaCon. Welcome back.
ql |
New year
New President
sure...why not?
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He's a sweetheart, actually. And he's curious about stuff. He just says some silly shit sometimes and then gets stuck trying to defend it.
Brooklyn Girl
Don't we all?
Obama has the rhetorical skills of a very effective clergyman.
He reminds me of a priest I used to know.
It's weird, because he's the polar opposite of Bush.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore | 01.17.09 - 10:24 am | #
Common style in the black church. Probably not practiced in whatever church Bush (supposedly) goes to.
simels, we have got to get you on "Who wants to be a millionaire" b/c that would be too fucking funny.
He just says some silly shit sometimes and then gets stuck trying to defend it.
...as if he were practicin' to become a lawyer.
wondering if this philly speech is foreshadowing his inaugural address...
It’s OK to throw out your steering wheel, as long as you remember you’re driving without one.
sdf it happened while I was at work so look at the threads about noon to 3pm yesterday.
Enchilada casserole tastes just as good.
plantsman
It's easier and less corn tortill-ly tasting. Not that I don't like that taste. I've already done the hard chopping up part of onions, peppers (and I use both fresh and jared or canned. Wash them from the vinegar.)
funny meaningless statistical comparison:
The U.S. Secret Service is overseeing a security force of more than 40,000 people, including 7,500 active duty soldiers, 10,000 National Guard troops and 25,000 law-enforcement officers.
That surpasses the 31,000 troops serving in Afghanistan.
Not as much as I dislike "homeland", I'd wager.
Adam Hominem
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It always cracks me up when Chris Matthews obsesses about how much he hates that word. Too bad the asshole didn't actually complain about the subtext all these years past.
"Homeland Security" = teh suck of a name.
Why don't we just go back to having a "War Department"?
Marcellina-
Bollywood is not an area of musical expertise for me, but when I'm exploring that genre there's a name that keeps coming up in the things that I find I really like: A.R. Rahman. Composer and singer, too.
Kavita Krishnamurthy singing "Dheeme Dheeme."
I'll try to find a link.
Around this time or a bit later yesterday, and it jumped several threads.
...as if he were practicin' to become a lawyer.
Gromit
Some lawyers aren't all that good at arguing the indefensible, because sometimes, things really can't be defended.
And now --
Steve's Movie Reviews©!!!
"Revolutionary Road"
Sam Mendes, having previously alerted us in "American Beauty" to the fact that life in bourgeois American suburbia today is stultifying, repressed and lame, now reminds us that it was the same in the 50s, except with fattier food.
"Paul Blart, Mall Cop"
A hypoglycemic security guard is trapped in a shopping center when hijackers take over. Essentially a remake of "Die Hard," but with bad fat jokes.
"Defiance"
Jews fight back, but given the current political climate I have no comment.
Don't we all?
JR, kerosene and a match | 01.17.09 - 10:26 am | #
Definitely. But he sticks with his point of view on some pretty silly stuff longer than most would.
Common style in the black church. Probably not practiced in whatever church Bush (supposedly) goes to.
Cathedral of Carlisle Group
Just a note - formal, historiographically sound writing can sound really, really pretentious if ur not careful!
I think barndog is totally disgusted with me and the snow. He left after my last comment about snow bitching. I know y'all are going through hell.
Agent Orange, I am curious, what can you say about how you were treated, under the radar? Did we give you a fair shake as a "newbie"?
They're going to need that time to fumigate.
Hecate implied last night that some of her wiccan friends were actively engaged in decontamination of the VP residence.
The U.S. Secret Service is overseeing a security force of more than 40,000 people, including 7,500 active duty soldiers, 10,000 National Guard troops and 25,000 law-enforcement officers.
Troutski, hfm
Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?
A.R. Rahman. Composer and singer, too.
A lot of this person's music is on the soundtrack, shimplate.
uck, it's exciting as hell that Chimpy and Crashcart are finally leaving.
MP | 01.17.09 - 10:24 am | #
I feel this weight lifting, the crick in my neck beginning to ease.
Eight fucking years of loathing those people. I was younger and bore it better when Reagan and Bush pere were around.
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But at least he found humor in it, at the end, noting that the matter he may have come from appeared to be denser than others.
Buckeye ... | 01.17.09 - 10:22 am | #
He's a sweetheart, actually. And he's curious about stuff. He just says some silly shit sometimes and then gets stuck trying to defend it.
Brooklyn Girl, shady dame | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:24 am |
He's said some weird stuff about LOTR. I've no doubt he's a sweetheart-I don't get hostility from him-but sometimes I go 'Where did that come from?!'
new world symphony in background....
wondering if this philly speech is foreshadowing his inaugural address...
jdw | 01.17.09 - 10:27 am
Obama emulating Lincoln's path to the Inaugural - literally!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS...sion/
index.html
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"Defiance"
I was gonna try to talk TKK into seeing that simply b/c it's playing at the Ziggy.
Was it any good?
The first rule of holes is when you’re in one, stop digging.
When you’re in three, bring a lot of shovels.
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I find that I really, really dislike and distrust the word "leadership".
Marcellina | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:25 am | #
I really dislike "homeland."
"I feel this weight lifting, the crick in my neck beginning to ease."
i'm hoping the nausea abates.
The wiccans are going to sage the city.
But I suppose you all saw that on Rachel too.
Some lawyers aren't all that good at arguing the indefensible, because sometimes, things really can't be defended.
Hmm. That sounds so familiar, somehow.
HBK - thanks.
GWPDA - uh oh, I hope ur not talking to me!
yay! it's up to 0 degrees! a warming trend!
Obama emulating Lincoln's path to the Inaugural - literally!
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Agent Orange
I think he's overdoing the Lincoln shtick. Jut MHO.
Hecate implied last night that some of her wiccan friends were actively engaged in decontamination of the VP residence.
Gromit
Some of the Repukes have been annointing stuff with oil.
"Scent-marking for Jesus"
I make my enchiladas with cream-o-chicken instead of enchilada sauce. Sounds crazy but try it.
res ipsa listen to some stuff done by Nitin Sawhney too.
He did the music for The Namesake. Good movie and a good netflix rent.
I was gonna try to talk TKK into seeing that simply b/c it's playing at the Ziggy.
Last time we saw a Jews Surviving the Holocaust Movie you hated it, just cuz the hot chick kept taking off her clothes.
The first rule of holes is when you’re in one, stop digging.
When you’re in three, bring a lot of shovels.
Or, just apologize and admit that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
I find it's always easier to apologize immediately if I've made a mistake. Move the fuck on; let it go.
simels, we have got to get you on "Who wants to be a millionaire" b/c that would be too fucking funny.
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:27 am | #
Don't get me started. I have passed the written for that show six times now.
I'm beginning to develop a complex for why I never get picked after the interview.
And if you've watched the show recently, you might have an idea why. Let's just say I haven't seen anybody on it who looked like me in...well, ever.
Who were Agent Orange other identities?
Brooklyn Girl owes me a latte.
Skim milk, please.
One of the things I love about Indian movies is how they always squeeze a dance scene in. Even in Slumdog, they had a huge dance number in the Mumbai train station after the credits.
And the dancing grandmas on the soccer field after Bend It Like Beckham had me rolling in the aisle.
Coke to Adam H.
Well he's coming from Philly to D.C., so it's less Lincoln than NJ Transit.
They're going to need that time to fumigate.
Hecate implied last night that some of her wiccan friends were actively engaged in decontamination of the VP residence.
Gromit
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ohhhh, count me in.
The talk in Delaware is how the VP is getting Brandywine Valley artists' paintings on loan for the residence. Funny that Wyeth just passed along with this passing of the guard.
A lot of this person's music is on the soundtrack,
Also M.I.A., who I rather like, despite being somewhat hip-hop impaired.
Hecate implied last night that some of her wiccan friends were actively engaged in decontamination of the VP residence.
Gromit
Whatever they are doing certainly cannot hurt.
HBK,
I put "Namesake" in the queue on your recco. Will look for Nitin Sawhney, too. Thx.
I mentioned "spiritually cleansing" DC while Hecate was here hoping she would take the hint, and larkspur specifically urged her to.
yay! it's up to 0 degrees! a warming trend!
ina, Champ | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:31 am
We're up to 12 here.
Still only about 55 in my apt.
Sounds crazy but try it.
20¿O9
Sounds good, actually.
Was it any good?
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:30 am | #
To be unnsarky, yes.
Old fashioned, a little corny, but ultimately stirring.
It's an amazing story.....
Ooops! Sorry ... latte on its way! Caf, halfcaf, decaf, redeye, or teethclench?
Hmm. That sounds so familiar, somehow.
plantsman
Well... The shoe does fit, doesn't it? Also.
Hecate implied last night that some of her wiccan friends were actively engaged in decontamination of the VP residence.
Gromit
I'm staying neutral. Good luck to you all with that. We gays were thrown under the bus right after--from the get go.
really dislike "homeland."
Brooklyn Girl, shady dame
"Hhomeland" is on it's way out the door, I'm hoping. Heard a couple of pundits openly deriding it the other day. They finally agreed to just say "the country" instead.
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res has inspired my to dig out my Dil Chahta Hai soundtrack CD. Feel the groove!
Or, just apologize and admit that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
The quote was from the Pornstache of Understanding (Tommy Friedman).
I just wanted to see if anyone would bite.
Last time we saw a Jews Surviving the Holocaust Movie you hated it, just cuz the hot chick kept taking off her clothes.
The Kenosha Kid
TKK, The movie was obscene. Seriously.
I will see THIS Jews Surviving the Holocaust Movie with you.
Did we give you a fair shake as a "newbie"?
Marcellina | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:29 am
It wasn't necessarily my method or purpose but I was often ripped for posting things that would have been acceptable from 'regulars'.
Again it wasn't an experiment, it was just more of a reaction to things and a few people. Nothing more.
.
They were showing the Nixon impeachment committee vote in the House on PBS the other night. There was a younger, geeky looking Trent Lott making sure to yell "Nay!" when his name was called.
What a putz.
Well he's coming from Philly to D.C., so it's less Lincoln than NJ Transit.
Culture of TrÜth |
Good Lord I hope he's not taking SEPTA.
which one of you hosers killed atrios?
my Dil Chahta Hai soundtrack CD.
Will check this out, too.
"Hhomeland" is on it's way out the door, I'm hoping. Heard a couple of pundits openly deriding it the other day. They finally agreed to just say "the country" instead.
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Sparkle Plenty | 01.17.09 - 10:34 am | #
I'm not so crazy about Bush constantly referring to "the American citizens" either.
It's the fricking American people, you Kafka-esque dickweed.
We gays were thrown under the bus right after--from the get go.
Just give it time. He's getting rid of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
He also has the gay, Episcopalian (is it Bishop?) giving an invocation, as well. Pretty inclusive.
He'll try. Give him a chance to try.
MSNBC has Joe Watkins commenting. What kind of person ministers a church and runs a political consulting operation at the same time?
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Obama & Biden are stopping off in Wilmington. Apparently you can show up at the stadium for the rally. They told everyone to get there by 9:00 a.m. Currently, it's 17°. No way I would go and hang out for several hours.
I love that Obama is taking the train...
Speaking of the Mustache of Understanding...
Movie excerpt featuring Kavita Krishnamurthy singing an A.R. Rahman bollywood song.
Chile-based enchilada sauce is an acquired taste, but I managed to acquire it. Cream of Chicken sounds kinda like Enchiladas Suizas
I have an idea.
Why don't you just ditch all of the religion/spirituality horseshit when entering the .gov door.
Last time we saw a Jews Surviving the Holocaust Movie you hated it, just cuz the hot chick kept taking off her clothes.
The Kenosha Kid
Seriously -- I forget which movie you're talking about. It was....??????
I remember LBJ drawling "Mah fellow Amurikans.."
JR,
So IS all everyone describing "Goa"?
The fighting, death and destruction in Gaza is painful to watch. But it’s all too familiar. It’s the latest version of the longest-running play in the modern Middle East, which, if I were to give it a title, would be called: “Who owns this hotel? Can the Jews have a room? And shouldn’t we blow up the bar and replace it with a mosque?"
What kind of person ministers a church and runs a political consulting operation at the same time?
A Republican.
It was like the music on that series Trance Planet.
HoneyBearKelly
a great series, to be sure. you may want to try the volume "asian trance" i think there's only the one. similar concept.
Gone, not forgotten: Dems go after Bush
The Politico ^
For the last eight years, Democrats have been counting the days until George W. Bush leaves the White House.
Now some of them can’t seem to let him go.
On Friday, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) distributed a video showing “how the policies of the Bush Administration have failed the nation and continue to affect our ability to confront the current economic crisis.”
Earlier in the week, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr., (D-Mich.) released a 486-page report documenting a litany of alleged abuses by Bush and members of his administration.
That's right. As Lincoln said at Gettysburg: "Don't never forget what they did here."
It wasn't necessarily my method or purpose but I was often ripped for posting things that would have been acceptable from 'regulars'.
Never from me, Agent Orange. Never from me. I've been ripped, too, and those very few, selective, exclusive assholes can jump into a 33 degree lake, afaic.
"What kind of person ministers a church and runs a political consulting operation at the same time?"
is there a difference?
MSNBC has Joe Watkins commenting. What kind of person ministers a church and runs a political consulting operation at the same time?
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tee hee! Cream of Faith-Based Bushco relativism at its most obvious.
simels,
Verhoeven. "Black Books".
You Atheists!
TKK, The movie was obscene. Seriously.
res ipsa loquitur | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:34 am | #
"The Reader", by any chance?
I actively hated the book.
"What kind of person ministers a church and runs a political consulting operation at the same time?"
is there a difference?
jdw
There would be, if the IRS would get off the stick.
Thanks ChiDyke.
I'll look for it.
Rachel Maddow Show: Matt Taibbi on the Bush Legacy
http://crooksandliars.com/media/.../wmv/7121/
25291
So IS all everyone describing "Goa"?
res ipsa loquitur
Sounds more hip-hoppy.. Goa is more house.
Letterman once had a top ten list of things Licoln would say, were he alive today.
One of them was "Gaak! Iron bird!!!"
It was "The Black Book" by Paul Verhoeven. Simels, admit you just want to see it for the hot chick.
/totally worth it
Sounds good, actually.
JR, kerosene and a match | 01.17.09 - 10:33 am | #
It amazingly good that way. I was surprised when this recipe was given to me by my mom from an old black friend of hers. Blacks really know how to add ingredients together in cooking. You use Velveeta cheese and sharp cheddar. I cut it in chunks between layers along with shredded cheddar. Final layer is the rest of the filling with chunks of that and shredded cheese and bake. You have to make the filling sorta soupy because the corn tortillas soak up tons of liquid.
Steve -
In my travels last night, I was introduced to this guy - author of "A Secret History of Jewish Punk." I love this town...
http://tinyurl.com/y7d7sw
It's the fricking American people, you Kafka-esque dickweed.
steve simels |
Actually, I'm not crazy about "American people" either, though I know it's not going anywhere at all, and that Obama will certainly use it a lot, etc.
I find that it is often used to imply that we all really want the same thing (that there aren't some fucking real and fundamental differences) and therefore why can't we all get along and be post-partisan? (All we have to do is follow the General Will!!)
[ end mini-rant ]
res ipsa I almost forgot.
Thievery Corporation's new ceedee has a lot of that type of music too.
I have an idea.
Why don't you just ditch all of the religion/spirituality horseshit when entering the .gov door.
JR, kerosene and a match
well, yeah.
when the girls asked about their school paper mentioning obama using lincoln's bible, i found myself stumbling.
You Atheists!
plantsman
you called?
Obama & Biden are stopping off in Wilmington.
No way I would go and hang out for several hours.
ql
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I am going to watch it on the teevee myself.
I went to see Sophie's Choice with a friend, without the slightest idea of what it was about.
I was a basket case for days afterwards.
Some of the finest acting I've ever seen, and far better than I could ever imagine possible, by Kevin Kline and Meryl Streep.
I can still hear her say "Natan"?
Shrimplate, Dil Chahta Hai is a lot softer, not really hip-hoppy at all. But that woman's voice (the one that sings ALL Bollywood songs) makes me smile.
America is the bearded sky entity's country. Just like the Cowboys are America's team. For this reason, their old stadium was in the form of a dome with a hole in the top. For the bearded sky entity to watch through.
Blacks really know how to add ingredients together in cooking.
That strikes me as a very odd thing to say.
Why don't you just ditch all of the religion/spirituality horseshit when entering the .gov door.
JR, kerosene and a match | 01.17.09 - 10:36 am | #
That would be a good start.
Because I love certain natural fragrances, the Wiccan practices do not offend me, nor do I associate them with sky heroes. That's just me.
For this reason, their old stadium was in the form of a dome with a hole in the top. For the bearded sky entity to watch through.
I always got a kick out of that claim.
It was "The Black Book" by Paul Verhoeven. Simels, admit you just want to see it for the hot chick.
/totally worth it
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:39 am | #
What?
I absolutely loved that movie. Where did you get the idea I didn't?
Ooh -- I just sounded like Nathan Thurm.
Meryl Streep was one of the best actors of our time.
For this reason, their old stadium was in the form of a dome with a hole in the top. For the bearded sky entity to watch through.
I would think said entity would at least have x-ray vision among his superpowers?
"Blacks really know how to add ingredients together in cooking."
...and dance!!!!
Agent Orange
I think he's overdoing the Lincoln shtick. Jut MHO.
Adam Hominem |
Seriously if Obama adopts too much of Lincoln's post Civil War viewpoint toward the defeated I'll be worried. Krugman had it right the other day about investigating the Bush years and why it was vital. Lincoln was able to look forward (not capturing Jefferson Davis for instance) because the other side was defeated i na devastating war and were literally in ruins. The Republicans today are not! They're in a very elastic situation where in only one or two election cycles they can rebound. The rebel South was unlikely to rise for generations. Today's Republicans can return quickly.
It's why the recent crimes of Bushco NEED to be exposed and tried. It's our only defense.
'With malice toward none and charity toward all' doesn't apply as it did after the Civil War.
My 2 cents.
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Seriously -- I forget which movie you're talking about. It was....??????
steve simels
Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks in "Hijinks in Dachau"!!!!
damn, keeping this fire going is proving hard fucking work. i need a brawny irish person to shovel coal into it, or something.
Why don't you just ditch all of the religion/spirituality horseshit when entering the .gov door.
JR,
/standing ovation/
indeed.
Because I love certain natural fragrances, the Wiccan practices do not offend me, nor do I associate them with sky heroes. That's just me.
plantsman
Sage is a great cleansing agent.
Ooh -- I just sounded like Nathan Thurm.
steve simels
Gonzales used Nathan Thurm as his model for Atty Genl.
America is the bearded sky entity's country. Just like the Cowboys are America's team. For this reason, their old stadium was in the form of a dome with a hole in the top. For the bearded sky entity to watch through.
Tralfaz | 01.17.09 - 10:41 am | #
'With malice toward none and charity toward all' doesn't apply as it did after the Civil War.
My 2 cents.
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Agent Orange
Absolutely right.
In my travels last night, I was introduced to this guy - author of "A Secret History of Jewish Punk." I love this town...
http://tinyurl.com/y7d7sw
bill buckner | 01.17.09 - 10:39 am | #
Excellent!
America is the bearded sky entity's country. Just like the Cowboys are America's team.
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I am not following this bearded sky entity thing. I do know that all of the manly Eagles fans are growing lucky facial hair.
All the respect that Streep gained for me for Angels In America was lost when I saw Mamma Mia.
African-American comfort food cooking is a great route to diabetes for many of them. Tastes Great, Fast Killing.
Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks in "Hijinks in Dachau"!!!!
Culture of TrÜth | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:43 am | #
I actually pitched a series to HBO called "Those Nutty Nazis Next Door."
I want to see Mamma Mia for the adorable daughter from Big Love. But I'll wait till it comes to cable.
Blacks really know how to add ingredients together in cooking.
That strikes me as a very odd thing to say.
JR, kerosene and a match | 01.17.09 - 10:41 am | #
Yeah, it sorta does but it's not a racist thing to say. They just know how to cook.
I wonder if Obama will have to hide in a disguise as Lincoln allegedly did when his train passed though Baltimore - especially if the Ravens lose.
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Sky News is covering the Onama train.
CNN International, in typical fashion, is showing some Asian human interest thing.
Vicki is baiting me again.
All the respect that Streep gained for me for Angels In America was lost when I saw Mamma Mia.
HoneyBearKelly | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:44 am | #
Doan wanta.
What Agent Orange said many times over.
Srysly, if you don't mind my asking, what were the other nyms you were posting under?
African-American comfort food cooking is a great route to diabetes for many of them. Tastes Great, Fast Killing.
krsaz always said that you haven't had mac and cheese until you've had "Black People's Mac and Cheese." He was married to an African American woman, and, although he's a very good cook, he said that when she or her family cooked something, it was out of this world.
I am offended by my own use of the phrase "of them. " Please substitute the word "people" for the phrase.
Obama is going to have a Lincoln cigarette on the Lincoln train as it passes through the Lincoln tunnel on the way to Lincoln Nebraska
I wish C-Span would have cameras along the train route. I want to see the journey.
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Good morning, peeps.
Saw at ThinkProgress Ken Blackwell was urging Repukese to fight Obama's economic stimulus because it would create more jobs and that would create an economic advantage to the Democratic Party.
Glad to know they have their priorities shoved squarely up their ass where they've been the past 8 years.
JR,
I'm sending you some virtualy sage to cleanse your evil, evil heart.
African-American comfort food cooking is a great route to diabetes for many of them. Tastes Great, Fast Killing.
plantsman | 01.17.09 - 10:44 am | #
What? You wanna live to be an old man?
heh, now i feel all guilty for trying to be snarky by saying "irish," after incog's little slip there with blacks and cooking. i meant mine to be snarky, snarky i tell you!
TKK, The movie was obscene. Seriously.
res
oh, dear. more guilt. will you tell me why you found it that way? we're speaking of 'black book,' right? i, um, really enjoyed it. was that wrong?
TKK<
That movie is stil playing at the Ziggy. I cannot go today, but I might be able to go tomorrow or Monday.
'With malice toward none and charity toward all' doesn't apply as it did after the Civil War.
My 2 cents
I also liked Krugman's point that the decision really isn't Obama's, though I understand practically it is. If we are a nation of laws then we should prosecute anybody who breaks the law. And I also understand the idea of prosecutorial discretion. But here we have a clear case of deliberate and harmful lawbreaking. Either we follow the Constitution or we use it to wipe our tears away over the death of the idea of America.
Saw at ThinkProgress Ken Blackwell was urging Repukese to fight Obama's economic stimulus because it would create more jobs and that would create an economic advantage to the Democratic Party.
Southern Beale
Good Lord.
Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks in "Hijinks in Dachau"!!!!
Ooh! We tried to be extras in that!
They just know how to cook.
20¿O9
So do a lot of non-blacks, and a lot of blacks** do not know how to cook.
**using the term to denote Americans of West African ancestry firmly embedded in that cultural/ethnic mileau - I personally have no use for the term "race"
Doan wanta.
Brooklyn Girl
I was dragged to Mamma Mia. It was almost not as horrible as I thought it would be.
Afterward, I found out that our local artsy theater had sing along showings, which would have been the way to do it.
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.
Barack Obama, in his student days, once had frayed sleeves.
Eerie, no?
we're speaking of 'black book,' right? i, um, really enjoyed it. was that wrong?
Anti-semite!
Obama's half brother:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
20...l_n_158692.html
I saw Mama Mia on a plane with no sound (the movie, not the plane). I like a lot of the old Abba songs and I'm pretty glad I didn't contaminate them with the movie.
I'm close already, momma's family does not have longevity, dad's does -- it's a toss-up.
to cleanse your evil, evil heart.
Vicki
First you'll have to find it.
But here we have a clear case of deliberate and harmful lawbreaking. Either we follow the Constitution or we use it to wipe our tears away over the death of the idea of America.
ql
But but but, there was no blowjob!
Marcellina-
I love the way Indian singers move their voices, and after a while the rather nasally face-resonance becomes very suitable, at least to my ears.
Their sense of shape and what my teacher Edith Borroff called "tessitura" is also rather amazing. They never sit on a note. They dance with their voices.
Saw at ThinkProgress Ken Blackwell was urging Repukese to fight Obama's economic stimulus because it would create more jobs and tha
You know, if I were a member of the Republican party leadership, I'd rethink this. Maybe even come to terms with the fact that when you appeal to the masses, you get their votes.
Jefferson talked a lot about democracy and majority...maybe these so called leaders would do well to read some Jefferson. For the first time, I'm guessing.
Obama is going to have a Lincoln cigarette on the Lincoln train as it passes through the Lincoln tunnel on the way to Lincoln Nebraska
The train is running exclusively on recycled Lincoln Logs.
Obama is going to have a Lincoln cigarette on the Lincoln train as it passes through the Lincoln tunnel on the way to Lincoln Nebraska
The Kenosha Kid
[tosses lincoln penny at tkk]
I was dragged to Mamma Mia. It was almost not as horrible as I thought it would be.
I had to take my MIL. It was pretty horrible but I was able to salvage the two hours by enjoying the scenery. Greece has always been one of my most favorite places on earth so it made me want to go back.
I was never an ABBA fan but I don't hate musicals, I rather enjoy them. I honestly think I would have enjoyed that film better if they had passed up the big Hollywood stars for performers who could actually, you know, sing.
Barack Obama, in his student days, once had frayed sleeves.
Eerie, no?
steve simels
Don't quit your day job.
I personally have no use for the term "race"
JR, kerosene and a match | 01.17.09 - 10:48 am | #
Me neither but that still doesn't negate the fact that blacks folks know how to cook.
Mr. Bush's final approval rating is the lowest final rating for an outgoing president since Gallup began asking about presidential approval more than 70 years ago. "
.......Jane Goodall in her Gombi series tells the tale of a low ranking male rocketing to the top of the troupe by banging around an empty tin can.
Either we follow the Constitution or we use it to wipe our tears away over the death of the idea of America.
ql | 01.17.09 - 10:48 am | #
Not to get all melodramatic about it, but let's face it -- if the Obama presidency isn't the success we all hope it will be, there's a really good chance that America as we knew it will be pretty much down the tubes.
Barack Obama, in his student days, once had frayed sleeves.
I'll still tip the wait staff, but Jeez that was bad.
Maybe Obama could invite Lincoln Alexander....
We want the republicans to make Ken Blackwell the head of the party and Sarah Palin to be their 2012 candidate.
That will make the election like playing hoops at the elementary school with the 8 foot baskets. Slam dunkorama.
You know, if I were a member of the Republican party leadership, I'd rethink this. Maybe even come to terms with the fact that when you appeal to the masses, you get their votes.
I caught a glimpse of Boehner's floor speech on the stimulus. He practically stamped his widow foot and cwied. It was hilarious. He's such a bad actor, he was like "I'm just dumbfounded at this plan it's so horrible and icky and socialist, my heart is broken." Mwah.
Don't quit your day job.
Adam Hominem | 01.17.09 - 10:50 am | #
It sounds better with a rim shot.
Me neither but that still doesn't negate the fact that blacks folks know how to cook.
20¿O9
White folks know how to cook, too.
Except for the Irish
Obama is going to have a Lincoln cigarette on the Lincoln train as it passes through the Lincoln tunnel on the way to Lincoln Nebraska
The Kenosha Kid | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:47 am | #
Before he gets into his Lincoln Towncar.
We want the republicans to make Ken Blackwell the head of the party and Sarah Palin to be their 2012 candidate.
And Joe The Plumber the VP candidate. Please. Make it so.
Not to get all melodramatic about it, but let's face it -- if the Obama presidency isn't the success we all hope it will be, there's a really good chance that America as we knew it will be pretty much down the tubes.
steve simels
Empires live, empires die. I'm not sure I would mourn the passing of this one.
Rome created beautiful things, but there was an awful lot of cruelty, as well.
"blacks:" great singers, dancers, cooks (but not chefs, laws no!) and you should see Those People jump! they've finally figured out how to throw the pigskin, as well as catch it, i hear.
All the respect that Streep gained for me for Angels In America was lost when I saw Mamma Mia.
HoneyBearKelly
no interest in MM, but i really enjoyed AiA, the HBO version. i wish he'd do another series about what happened to the gay republican, tho. it could be called, "Angels in the Homeland" and would have many bush officials and appointees.
Incog,
Lots of people know how to cook, and lots of people don't know how to cook.
Of all backgrounds.
We're all the human race but black folks really know how to cook.
Gotta go, later peeps. Gotta hit a writer's group meeting and I haven't even written anything. I'm in trouble now.
That will make the election like playing hoops at the elementary school with the 8 foot baskets. Slam dunkorama.
Troutski, hfm | 01.17.09 - 10:51 am | #
And don't forget -- there's serious talk about them running Rick Lazio(!) for NY governor.
:LOL: :LOL:
He missed a golden opportunity by going with the Cadillac limo instead of the Lincoln Continental.
I love the way Indian singers move their voices, and after a while the rather nasally face-resonance becomes very suitable, at least to my ears.
They never sit on a note. They dance with their voices.
shrimplate
*
one of my favorite albums was produced by George Harrison and has Ravi Shankar and others performing classic indian songs.
Either we follow the Constitution or we use it to wipe our tears away over the death of the idea of America.
ql | 01.17.09 - 10:48 am
The point of looking towards the past IS in fact making the future safer for Americans and the American ideals. There's a lot more to 'making Americans safe' than worrying about hijacked planes being flown into buildings.
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But but but, there was no blowjob!
For the past eight years not a single act of fellatio has taken place in the White House.
That, my friends, is one helluva record of achievement!
I like a lot of the old Abba songs and I'm pretty glad I didn't contaminate them with the movie.
Tralfaz
Interesting. I like Dancing Queen a lot better now that I've heard it as background for the movie. The elderly woman dropping her load of sticks and leaving her stuffy-faced husband on the donkey while she joined the parade was the movie's high point, imho.
SoBe, you nailed it on Boehner.
The "Oh. My. God." was worthy of Vivien Leigh's most unctuous over-acting.
I'm developing a place in my heart for The Truman Show.
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if the Obama presidency isn't the success we all hope it will be, there's a really good chance that America as we knew it will be pretty much down the tubes.
steve simels
Unfortunately so. But made deliberately so by the Bush administration.
It wouldn't take much to create a devastating final push and America would become something else. It could get bad.
I'm a devout pessimist, but even I have hope with the election of Obama.
That will make the election like playing hoops at the elementary school with the 8 foot baskets. Slam dunkorama.
Pretty much the way I see it, too. Ken Blackwell wants the republics to fight Obama's recovery plan because it might work?
For the past eight years not a single act of fellatio has taken place in the White House.
That, my friends, is one helluva record of achievement!
Sufferin' Succotash
Mah friend, I think you forget Jeff Gannon.
Certainly no act of heterosexual fellatio.
Empires live, empires die. I'm not sure I would mourn the passing of this one.
Adam Hominem | 01.17.09 - 10:52 am | #
Well, call me naive, but America really is a pretty good idea for a country. I would really hate to live through the period when we have to fess up that it's completely failed.
And I don't think, on balance, that would be good for the world, either.
Before he gets into his Lincoln Towncar.
Brooklyn Girl, shady dame
It's a Cadillac - Secret Service didn't check their emails.
For the past eight years not a single act of fellatio has taken place in the White House.
You forgot Jeff Gannon.
eleven degrees outside?
holy crap. i've gone outside to carry some armloads of shit to the trashcan and it never occurred to me that it was that cold.
it's beginning to look a lot like inauguration.... everywhere you go.
Vivien Leigh's most unctuous over-acting
I beg your pardon, but when did Vivien Leigh ever unctuously overact?
"Fiddle-dee-dee"?
For the past eight years not a single act of fellatio has taken place in the White House.
no, but there has been an awful lot of cocksucking
Interesting. I like Dancing Queen a lot better now that I've heard it as background for the movie. The elderly woman dropping her load of sticks and leaving her stuffy-faced husband on the donkey while she joined the parade was the movie's high point, imho.
Upsidasium
I'm curious, did they use the original studio tracks for the movie? Or did they remake them? If the latter, I'm really really glad I had the sound off. I tend to get very attached to the original studio versions of songs.
Fresh coffee to Mr Hominem
I think Lazio's going after HRC's senate seat in 2010.
Hah!
Certainly no act of heterosexual fellatio.
Adam Hominem
You forget the Bush Twins.
If you play your cards right we'll invade.
For the past eight years not a single act of fellatio has taken place in the White House.
Bad 'actors' to the end.
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For the past eight years not a single act of fellatio has taken place in the White House.
Everything was happening in the press corps.
There's also "I shall nevuh, evuh, be hungry AGAIN"
(actually Scarlett overacted)
Sarah Palin to be their 2012 candidate
"We gotta do that health care thing and that other gummint stuff, you betcha!"
Jesus Christ on a cracker, what a fucking buffoon!!!
A grifter who needs help grifting. Good Grief.
empires do indeed fall. to me, it's just a matter of who goes down with ours, and how. sorry to say it but i think we've passed the "constitutional" period in our history. obama may yet prove me wrong, which would be great and i'd eat every word i said about him. but the true traitors and destroyers of the Constitution, warmongers and treasury-empty-ers? i seriously doubt any of those most responsible have much to worry about in the coming years.
Ya, I gotta go to. Anxious border collies are yelling at me because the horses haven't been fed yet.
Advice - never give a pack of border collies overlord duties. BCs are relentless task masters when it comes to getting the work done.
l8r sk8rs
Mrs. Moe studies and writes on the use of "race." I can't fully explain her argument, and hope I'm not getting any of this wrong, but as I understand her... of course there is no scientific basis for the concept of "race" in a genetic sense. Still, there are useful ways to use the word "race"-- certainly it's very real in a sociological sense, and there are ways to use it for medical purposes. Mrs. Moe is quite critical of the last, in the ways it is applied, but as a sort of momentary, hesitant, explanatory use, she understands and will defend. For example, screening for some diseases has increased importance in some races, that sort of thing.
Again, I don't want to misrepresent her, and I hope I didn't get this too wrong.
Gay fellatio doesn't count if you're a real Murkin.
I'm curious, did they use the original studio tracks for the movie? Or did they remake them? If the latter, I'm really really glad I had the sound off. I tend to get very attached to the original studio versions of songs.
Tralfaz | 01.17.09 - 10:56 am | #
Pierce Brosnan Sings!
Seriously -- he sounds a little like Richard Thompson.
Mah friend, I think you forget Jeff Gannon.
Certainly no act of heterosexual fellatio.
Adam Hominem
We never did get the full story on that guy, did we? Weren't their visitor logs indicating that he had over-nighters in the White House?
If you play your cards right we'll invade.
JR, kerosene and a match
Rethinking your long term plan involving slow death by means of donuts of mass cardiac destruction?
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Atrios must have been at quite a party last night.
For the past eight years not a single act of fellatio has taken place in the White House.
That, my friends, is one helluva record of achievement!
Sufferin' Succotash | Homepage | 01.17.09 - 10:54 am | #
Glad we have you fooled!
Sarah Palin to be their 2012 candidate
If the gods are kind.
I find that it is often used to imply that we all really want the same thing (that there aren't some fucking real and fundamental differences) and therefore why can't we all get along and be post-partisan? (All we have to do is follow the General Will!!)
[ end mini-rant ]
sdf (Stu) | 01.17.09 - 10:39 am | #
I want chocolate.
no duh ...
'WASHINGTON – Eighty-three of the nation's 100 largest corporations, including Citigroup, Bank of America and News Corp., had subsidiaries in offshore tax havens in 2007, and some of the companies received federal bailout funding, a government watchdog said Friday.'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090...o_co/
tax_havens
If you play your cards right we'll invade.
JR, kerosene and a match
Be nice to America or we'll bring democracy to your country.
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The actors sang them - which goes to show, you haven't experienced
ABBA until you've heard Pierce Brosnan do ABBA.
Pierce Brosnan Sings!
Seriously -- he sounds a little like Richard Thompson.
steve simels
ew (re: Brosnan singing, not Thompson, of course)
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I think Pierce Brosnan was the least offensive.
He was trained on the Irish stage and they break into song all the time.
And Meryl can actually sing (see Postcards From The Edge) but that was just tragic.
Sarah Palin/Jesse Ventura 2012!!!
For the past eight years not a single act of fellatio has taken place in the White House.
That, my friends, is one helluva record of achievement!
Sufferin' Succotash
What, Jimmy/Jeff was just visiting?
Good morning, friends!
Sarah Palin/Joe the Plumber 2012!
GWPDA - uh oh, I hope ur not talking to me!
Nah - GWPDA's been asked by NEH to serve as a source repository for one of its digital initiatives. Writing up what it iz makes for some potentially perilous pomposity!
Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read "Atlas Shrugged" a "virgin." Being conversant in Ayn Rand's classic novel about the economic carnage caused by big government run amok was practically a job requirement. If only "Atlas" were required reading for every member of Congress and political appointee in the Obama administration. I'm confident that we'd get out of the current financial mess a lot faster.
Stephen Moore, writing in the WSJ. The humor triumph of the Bush era.
Morning, Terry C; you lining the train route?
i think V.Leigh did Scarlett just right. scarlett was constructed in the book as a selfish, childish, pig-headed attention/drama queen, after all. "moderate" and "thoughtful" she weren't.
Gay fellatio doesn't count if you're a real Murkin.
Rick Warren and Roland Martin wouldn't agree.
Again, I don't want to misrepresent her, and I hope I didn't get this too wrong.
Moe Szyslak
It's about right.
There are clines in biology, not races. The underlying genetics don't support anything based on skin colour.
As an example, three are certain underly genetics that impact health in American "blacks".. but have nthing to do with being black and everything to do having ancestry in a certain area of West Africa. Other Africn clines will not have the same issues, no matter what the skin colour.
My black Lab is built like a brick shithouse, but she's very demure and sweet. My Texas Blue Lacy is smaller, well-musculatured, and she likes to "herd" other animals but she's passive in confrontations.
They are whining to go the the Bark Park.
Later, batsies.
My spouse and child have flown off to Sacramento to see relatives, and I hope you all don't mind if I stop in here for the fine company once and a while over the weekend.
I hope y'all stay warm and toasty. Please avoid severe wind-chill!
Sarah Palin/Joe the Plumber 2012!
Brooklyn Girl, shady dame
Did you see that clip of the Plumber pining for the days of WWI and WWII, were you got your hard war facts from movie newsreels?
These fuckers are cartoonish. They can't be real.
I'm confident that we'd get out of the current financial mess a lot faster.
and into one even worse.
Sarah Palin/Joe the Plumber 2012!
Brooklyn Girl, shady dame
The Idiot Ticket.
shoes and socks, anyone?
I agree, cd; if only my grandmother hadn't aspired to BE Vivien Leigh as Scarlett with her gentleman callers at age 92 at my mother's wake, I might feel differently.
scarlett was constructed in the book as a selfish, childish, pig-headed attention/drama queen, after all.
The movie was aired on tv every year when I was very young, and for some reason I just didn't like it, or Leigh. Probably it was too long and grown-up for me at the time.
However, I grew to like the film a lot more after I read the book and discovered this multifaceted, buck-the-system woman in Scarlett.
thrown shoes
For example, screening for some diseases has increased importance in some races, that sort of thing.
science has advanced enough to the point where we can talk about "genetic heritage" instead of race, and accomplish the same goals, health policy speaking. there's really no need to keep the construct of race around any longer than we have to. so long as we do, we'll get crap like "blacks know how to cook," etc. incog has obviously never met my mother, grandmother, great aunt, or younger sister.
JR-- that's basically Mrs. Moe's life work.
Pierce Brosnan Sings!
Seriously -- he sounds a little like Richard Thompson.
steve simels
I thought he sounded kinda like Fred Thompson.
However, I grew to like the film a lot more after I read the book and discovered this multifaceted, buck-the-system woman in Scarlett.
Marcellina
That's the way I felt, too. I hated the way women were expected to be decorative little idiots and liked the way Scarlett turned the system on its head.
sheets
Did you see that clip of the Plumber pining for the days of WWI and WWII, were you got your hard war facts from movie newsreels?
Because, as we all know, there were no newspapers back then.
Honestly, do these rightards know ANY history....besides the shit they manufacture?
Did you see that clip of the Plumber pining for the days of WWI and WWII, were you got your hard war facts from movie newsreels?
Sometimes I wonder if McCain's campaign was the great subversive deed of his life. He had to have known the ridiculousness of what it exposed.
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i think we've passed the "constitutional" period in our history
It all depends on what we mean by "constitution", whether we take the "original intent" or "living document" approach. A real purist might argue that we began trangressing the Constitution as early as 1791, with Hamilton's Bank of the United States.
When we look at the abuses of power that have occurred in the past, the Bush Era begins to look like one more brush with our propensity to mutate into a Banana Republic under circumstances that are politically and psychologically strained.
For the past eight years not a single act of fellatio has taken place in the White House.
Cough(Jeff Gannon)Cough
Nothing like heavily-censored newsreels to deliver the hard facts.
OK now you all have to tell us curious ones what thread this all occurred on.
sdf (Stu) | 01.17.09 - 10:26 am | #
It appears that the great wind chill Eschaton dust-up of Jan, 16, 2009 was initiated by the attached post of Euph. NTodd answered saying it had to do with feelings. Then others joined in to explain that neither Euph or NTodd had a clue in hell of what they were talking about. It went on for 4 or 5 threads. It was a real hoot. NTodd still says wind chill is how one feels.
Then there was a dust-up on bird ingestion in jet engines.
my thing with wind chill is the whole "mmakes it feel like" shit they add on. like "oh its 30 degrees but the wind makes it feel like 15 degrees." NO . it still fells like 30 degrees. the temperature did not change. it feels like 30 degrees and windy.
gah!
euphronius Night School! | 01.16.09 - 12:47 pm | #
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