just walked in, and look what I find.
Alien from up above |
05.24.08 - 1:22 pm | #
Bon samedi tout le monde!
plum p,better democrats please |
05.24.08 - 1:22 pm | #
... which is why mass transit can't succeed. Even if it's free, it won't be as convenient as having a car and being able to go exactly where you want, and come back with far more than your arms could carry.
American Hawk |
05.24.08 - 1:23 pm | #
I'm a 58, but that doesn't account the bus route that's four blocks from my house.
43 out of 100. That's why I have a car.
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 1:24 pm | #
i got a Toyota Yaris and drive less than 8000 km (around 4500 miles) a year with it. I'm a good girl, right?
plum p,better democrats please |
05.24.08 - 1:24 pm | #
Go to any large European City. Mass transit can and does succeed, sometimes beautifully.
plantsman, |
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05.24.08 - 1:24 pm | #
I'm a 58, but that doesn't account the bus route that's four blocks from my house.
... which is why mass transit can't succeed. Even if it's free, it won't be as convenient as having a car and being able to go exactly where you want, and come back with far more than your arms could carry.
You aren't very smart, are you?
Zap Rowsdower |
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05.24.08 - 1:25 pm | #
i want giant pneumatic tubes that will deliver everything to my house.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
05.24.08 - 1:25 pm | #
In my move from Montana to AZ the walk score of where I live went from zero to 3. I like living in the sticks, with wild animals roaming in my yards.
My proximity to the 'City' has massively improved. There are off Broadway productions at the TCC, and the U, and shopping and restaurants in Tucson are excellent. Missoula? Phft!
Doug |
05.24.08 - 1:25 pm | #
Hey billy!
Yeah, I show my age well...
Zap Rowsdower |
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05.24.08 - 1:26 pm | #
as I was saying...and not that anyone asked, but I thought Keith was over the top and windy on the HRC comment.
It aint cool to talk assassination--I agree--and while there is plenty wrong with what she is doing -- this is just a distraction from BUSHCO and Steny playing pattycake with the phone companies.
i prefer to put the focus on mcsame, his phony medical record non-release, his flip-flop on teleco immunity just yesterday--now he is for it again after being against it for one day--his vote against GI benefits, his lobbyist army, the lapdance express hypocrisy, the tax cuts for the rich, the pandering to the religious right and ....
peterboy |
05.24.08 - 1:26 pm | #
ZAP IS A LIAR!
no way he's 58!
plum p,better democrats please |
05.24.08 - 1:26 pm | #
35
Nearest food store is a 7-11. Doesn't count in my book as a grocery store.
qlª |
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05.24.08 - 1:26 pm | #
... which is why mass transit can't succeed.
DC's Metro is a very successful example of mass transit, idiot- fucking-ass.
billy b |
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05.24.08 - 1:27 pm | #
But I want to know if my walkscore jibes with my sleep number...
Zap Rowsdower |
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05.24.08 - 1:27 pm | #
The walkscore of Liberal Mountain is an unsurprising 0.
Molly Ivors |
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05.24.08 - 1:27 pm | #
HRC wants the focus on herself, and she's willing to say pretty offensive things to keep it there.
plantsman, |
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05.24.08 - 1:27 pm | #
I like living in the sticks, with wild animals roaming in my yards.
We have a really big rabbit that rooms around our neighbor. We call it "Food Of The Gods" bunny.
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 1:28 pm | #
My walk score is 58, but there are no grocery stores nearby.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
05.24.08 - 1:28 pm | #
There is a 7-11 very near me, which I've been into once in two years.
plantsman, |
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05.24.08 - 1:28 pm | #
NOOOOOO!!!!!
My walkscore is 58. My age is 32.
Zap Rowsdower |
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05.24.08 - 1:28 pm | #
It's so good in so many ways to walk a mile and a half every day and so easy to avoid.
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QuentinCompson, Negatory |
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05.24.08 - 1:28 pm | #
Nearest food store is a 7-11. Doesn't count in my book as a grocery store.
Alas, my dear - Delaware is teh suck when it comes to walking.
billy b |
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05.24.08 - 1:28 pm | #
my home in Omaha got a surprisingly high score of 82
marmoset |
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05.24.08 - 1:29 pm | #
I got a 98. Nothing like Manhattan.
dms |
05.24.08 - 1:29 pm | #
Gordon Ramsay really needs to increase her vocabulary to include some non-curse words.
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 1:29 pm | #
Does anyone know of a 'bikescore' of similar ilk?
Alien from up above |
05.24.08 - 1:29 pm | #
we agree, peterboy. Keith's comment yesterday was over the top, and Jon Stewart is too nice with McCain. But considering what Keith and Jon say the rest of the times, i give them a pass.
Keith and Jon are not our puppets. They can't say and do everything we want them too just cause they seem to be the only ones thinking "like us" on teevee!
plum p,better democrats please |
05.24.08 - 1:30 pm | #
57... there is a relatively nearby grocery to my home.
This doesn't take into account that the heat index today (and probably for the next five months) will be in the high nineties/low hundreds in my central Houston neighborhood.
Tim |
05.24.08 - 1:30 pm | #
WE do a lot of walking for fun and exercise, however.
Sorry I started that shit, my boy.
billy b |
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05.24.08 - 1:30 pm | #
The walkscore of Liberal Mountain is an unsurprising 0.
Are you living on-top of a hill or mountain, or in a hollar?
If on top of a rise, the wind electric generation potential of your location may be excellent without putting up a tower that is any higher than is necessary than to protect humans and live stock. This may matter a lot in the future. Unfortunately from what you've said about Thers, it would be you Molly who'd have to put it up.
Doug |
05.24.08 - 1:30 pm | #
Yay!
This song is playing on my radio.
Zap Rowsdower |
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05.24.08 - 1:30 pm | #
Alas, my dear - Delaware is teh suck when it comes to walking.
billy b
Doug,
We're looking at systems. And I don't mind putting it up.
Molly Ivors |
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05.24.08 - 1:32 pm | #
That reads slightly pornographic. He's painting the door trim today. We're installing new doors in our place. Next big project is a bathroom remodeling.
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 1:32 pm | #
I think we hit Bellevue State Park 2-3/week.
The parks are nice. Ever been to Brandywine SP?
billy b |
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05.24.08 - 1:32 pm | #
I have so many bunnies where I live that it's like having suicide bunnies attacking your vehicle whenever you drive out from here. Bunnies diving under your car from all directions.
Doug |
05.24.08 - 1:33 pm | #
And if you live in Wyoming like the Virginian and his pal, Trompass, did, it's a day and a half on horseback just to get off of the ranch and three days on the buckboard into Medicine Bow for a sack of flour and some two by fours.
Miss H., Great Expectorator |
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05.24.08 - 1:33 pm | #
Minneapolis is, by far, a more walkable city than St. Paul....unless you have really strong calve muscles.
Zap Rowsdower |
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05.24.08 - 1:33 pm | #
Seeing that fire in the Redwoods near Santa Cruz makes me sad.
plantsman, |
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05.24.08 - 1:33 pm | #
billy, not yet. We'll get there eventually.
qlª |
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05.24.08 - 1:33 pm | #
Zap: do you want to be my boytoy
(but i was a Smiths more than a Bunnymen in the 80s.)
plum p,better democrats please |
05.24.08 - 1:33 pm | #
(but i was a Smiths more than a Bunnymen in the 80s.)
Well, seeing that I'm a 32-YO "kid", I found Echo before I discovered the Smiths.
Either way, they're all good.
Zap Rowsdower |
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05.24.08 - 1:35 pm | #
American hawk seems to think that cars have been around for 30,000 years or so. What a fucking moron.
ronjazz |
05.24.08 - 1:36 pm | #
Got any jackalopes,
We've got at least three different kinds of rabbits, Jack, little bunnies, and something else...
In any case whenever you plant anything, the first job is to get some lengths of rebar, and chicken wire to make a fence. The little fuckers will chew on ANY new planting.
Doug |
05.24.08 - 1:36 pm | #
They have our place as a 20. Of course, they have a online grocery store as being 3.03 km away and a supermarket/pharmacy as being the closest drug store at 2.58 km away. There are TWO Safeways about 1.6 km away, 1.2 km if you walk. Both Safeways are in mini-malls that have a liquor store, vegetable store, restaurants, video store, medical clinic, vet, pet food store, Starbucks, fast food chains, and another major pharmacy.
So I 'd take that walkscore with a grain of salt.
My bald head's blushing!
Zap Rowsdower |
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05.24.08 - 1:37 pm | #
Atrios' fixation on public transportation reminds me of the old truism: "There's a weirdo on every bus, and if you can't spot the weirdo, then you're him."
Al H. |
05.24.08 - 1:37 pm | #
AH has also never been to a place with great transit, like Berlin.
plantsman, |
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05.24.08 - 1:37 pm | #
I don't ride the subway for one simple reason: I don't want to be pushed on to the tracks. Paranoid? Absolutely!
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 1:38 pm | #
AH has also never been to a place with great transit, like Berlin.
plantsman, | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 1:37 pm | #
Of course not. AH is afraid of everybody and everything outside his basement.
ronjazz |
05.24.08 - 1:38 pm | #
More than that, he's pretty fucking wise for only 32.
qlª |
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05.24.08 - 1:39 pm | #
if i pick my main street (2 miles away) i get a walkscore of 100...if i pick my road, it's 20
i'd rather live here than on main street, thank you
mogwai |
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05.24.08 - 1:39 pm | #
No one called sheets!
Omg. I just realized the Y2K fears actually happened. The US goes batshit crazy and becomes a rogue nation...
ellroon bitterful | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 1:07 pm | #
Is it wrong that this is my favorite Nike commercial:
Whatever happened to Shonen Knife?
Monica_A: Dammit!
good question! i don't know!
plum p,better democrats please |
05.24.08 - 1:40 pm | #
The walkscore of Liberal Mountain is an unsurprising 0.
Molly Ivors
Ours was, too. Apparently roadkill is not considered a walkable amenity.
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Sparkle Plenty |
05.24.08 - 1:41 pm | #
When I visited Potsdam about six years ago there were so few cars you could walk at 10 a.m. down the middle of a four lane street. The only vehicles I saw were buses.
Miss H., Great Expectorator |
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05.24.08 - 1:41 pm | #
I was wondering why I got a 26 (about 25 more than I thought I would). Seems like they don't consider walking across the lake a big deal.
mer |
05.24.08 - 1:41 pm | #
Plus, the city I live and work in is an island in a river delta, so it's FLAT. And yes, we have two inflatble boats AND two cat cages for our two cats.
doug r |
05.24.08 - 1:41 pm | #
That's neat. Mine is a 35, but doesn't mention that there are no sidewalks to any of the locations listed; you have to walk in the road with the cars and trucks to get to them.
Ensley |
05.24.08 - 1:42 pm | #
Seeing that fire in the Redwoods near Santa Cruz makes me sad.
plantsman, | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 1:33 pm
And let's not get into the squirrel problem. The squirrels around my house must be former Blackwater employees because the don't care who they hurt or what they destroy.
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 1:42 pm | #
Apparently roadkill is not considered a walkable amenity.
And yes, we have two inflatble boats AND two cat cages for our two cats.
Do the cat cages float?
Marcellina |
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05.24.08 - 1:42 pm | #
we kinda try to solve the walking problem in -20 in the winter:
Montreal's Underground City (French: La ville souterraine) is the set of interconnected complexes (both above and below ground) in and around downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is also known as the indoor city(ville intérieure), and is the largest underground complex in the world.[1]
East Germany was deathly devoid of traffic; The Lives of Others captures it perfectly.
plantsman, |
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05.24.08 - 1:43 pm | #
I got a 98 Walkscore. Oh my, I feel so virtuous.
Not.
I don't know if the drawn out Dem primary is helping McBush, but it seems that McBush is not helping himself.
res ipsa loquitur |
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05.24.08 - 1:43 pm | #
Apparently roadkill is not considered a walkable amenity.
Someone should find out and let us know. So music critic or a blogger who knows about power pop. That would be helpful.
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 1:44 pm | #
All things considered, for real estate valueing purposes, wouldn't you expect to get more points for a bar that is a quarter or half mile away versus one that is 0.05 miles away?
Stunt Woman |
05.24.08 - 1:44 pm | #
Went to a garage sale this morning where the family had a daughter about 6. Clearly, she was as interested in princesses as Rosie. Got a huge haul of pink shit for cheap. She's modeling it now.
Molly Ivors |
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05.24.08 - 1:44 pm | #
The Lives of Others captured alot of stuff well, especially the horror of an eavesdropping government and the pernicious nature of the security state.
peterboy |
05.24.08 - 1:45 pm | #
East Germany was deathly devoid of traffic
Out in the countryside, everybody was getting around on motorcycles. My beau had one til he moved to Berlin.
Marcellina |
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05.24.08 - 1:45 pm | #
East Germany was deathly devoid of traffic; The Lives of Others captures it perfectly.
heh. In 1980, I was visiting East Berlin. I was standing on a street corner with a few other people. Every corner had bombed out buildings from WWII. There was a light but no traffic in sight so I started to cross against the light. Christ did I get yelled at!
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
05.24.08 - 1:45 pm | #
My walk score will probobly improve soon, about 3 miles down the road some Greek has purchased a long out of business restaurant, and seems to be building a large expansion and parking lot. I haven't talked to him in months though, when I did he wanted to know if I wanted to manage a store for him.
I didn't, it seemed like it might be one of those 24/7 type jobs.
I'm trying to get my health up to par, not wreck it.
On that note, I've noticed that arthritic afflictions have mostly ceased, though I'd had those happening since my 30's. I think my surgeon in Montana removed an infectious process, that I'd had for a very long time, because the worst arthritic affliction, my shoulder, and back went away as soon as I reduced the morphine in the hospital bed. (that I could notice it at all)
Doug |
05.24.08 - 1:46 pm | #
That would be helpful.
Monica_A: Dammit!
did you go see the Ting Tings video i posted earlier? I'm totally hooked on that song:
That's just plain German, they do that in the West too.
Marcellina |
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05.24.08 - 1:46 pm | #
Walkscore 17, age 54
We're in the largest city of the state, but can regularly walk around the block in the middle of the road without seeing a car.
Gromit, lurking & working |
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05.24.08 - 1:47 pm | #
The plan is the three humans on the three person, the two cats in cages on the two person tied behind....
Okay, now I've got Monty Python and the Holy Grail in my haid.
Longs Drugs (0.2) has most of the hardware and gardening stuff that I'd otherwise have to get from Ace (0.5).
But it's not counted by Walkstore.
This program is flawed, I tell you. Deeply, deeply flawed.
Stunt Woman |
05.24.08 - 1:47 pm | #
“The core image of John McCain is as a reformer in Washington — and the more dominant the story is about the lobbying teams around him, the more you put that into question,” said Terry Nelson, who was Mr. McCain’s campaign manager until he was forced out last year. “If the Obama campaign can truly change him from being seen as a reformer to just being another Washington politician, it could be very damaging over the course of the campaign.”
Alles muss ganz in ordnug sein!
plantsman, |
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05.24.08 - 1:47 pm | #
They're still around.
I knew we could count on you, Molly Ivors!
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 1:47 pm | #
res has a higher score than watertiger?
Having been both places, I admit I'm surprised.
Molly Ivors |
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05.24.08 - 1:47 pm | #
Got a huge haul of pink shit for cheap. She's modeling it now.
Molly Ivors
pink princess stuff is EVIL! my 8 years old niece Lea is starting to get over them. But it's an hard addiction to break...
plum p,better democrats please |
05.24.08 - 1:48 pm | #
Got a huge haul of pink shit for cheap. She's modeling it now.
Molly Ivors
My older girl wanted so much to be one of sisters in Pirates of Penzance. . From about 2 till 8 y.o. she was always dressing up in all sorts of outfits trying to approximate the Victorian look. Usually included a feather boa or two.
That's just plain German, they do that in the West too
Yeah, come to think of it my German grandmother would have yelled at me.
leibniz leibkins ♘☮ |
05.24.08 - 1:48 pm | #
Marcellina-- Earlier people were nominating best cities for public transit. People suggested Paris and Singapore, I nominated Berlin. What's your favorite?
Gromit, lurking & working |
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05.24.08 - 1:48 pm | #
Taste is a personal thing, but I can easily live a happy life sans "ting ting".
Bjorn, nonkosherjewforO |
05.24.08 - 1:48 pm | #
Someone is blasting "Funky Town". Nothing wrong with the song, but it's way too loud.
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 1:48 pm | #
res has a higher score than watertiger? Having been both places, I admit I'm surprised.
Someone is blasting "Funky Town". Nothing wrong with the song, but it's way too loud.
Go over there with your taser and zap the crap out of the offender.
Then stand over him or her and say, "There. Now you're in funky town."
Stunt Woman |
05.24.08 - 1:50 pm | #
I got a walk score of 55, thought I think some of the mileage is incorrect. Also, I can walk 1 block to one bus route, and another 2 blocks to another.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins |
05.24.08 - 1:50 pm | #
Shonen Knife just couldn't cut it.
Bjorn, nonkosherjewforO |
05.24.08 - 1:50 pm | #
Germans don't queue up for busses.
The bus comes and everyone jams up at the door.
Surprised the hell out of me.
plantsman, |
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05.24.08 - 1:51 pm | #
Would you New Yorkers stop rubbing your high scores in our faces. We get it! We live in the sticks and you are all "soooo cosmopolitan".
[runs from room in tears]
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 1:51 pm | #
Evidently walkscore.com has not heard of the Knox County Grange Ladies Book of Crock Pot Cookery.
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Sparkle Plenty |
05.24.08 - 1:51 pm | #
Generally speaking, you don't want to carry lumber and granite home in your environmentally-conscious cloth bags.
Molly Ivors |
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05.24.08 - 1:51 pm | #
Gromit, I couldn't say — I haven't been everywhere!
All the large German cities are easy to get around, that's for sure.
Marcellina |
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05.24.08 - 1:52 pm | #
Then stand over him or her and say, "There. Now you're in funky town."
That sounds like the police may get involved. I need a lawyer. Is there a lawyer in the house?
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 1:52 pm | #
I concur on London Drugs: bought computer, vcr, dishwasher, grinder, chopper , toaster oven and even some drugs there.
doug r |
05.24.08 - 1:52 pm | #
It's true the trip back is a little, interesting.
jayackroyd |
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05.24.08 - 1:52 pm | #
Germans don't queue up for busses.
The bus comes and everyone jams up at the door.
Your soiling my liederhosen!!!!!
Stunt Woman |
05.24.08 - 1:52 pm | #
All the large German cities are easy to get around, that's for sure.
Marcellina | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 1:52 pm | #
Especially if you're a large German.
Bjorn, nonkosherjewforO |
05.24.08 - 1:52 pm | #
Gromit, I couldn't say — I haven't been everywhere!
Babe, this is Eschaton. Since when does lack of comprehensive knowledge stop people from having an opinion?
Gromit, lurking & working |
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05.24.08 - 1:53 pm | #
Beautiful day for a picnic yesterday. Sorry that I couldn't make it.
jayackroyd |
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05.24.08 - 1:53 pm | #
Good afternoon, friends.
Just saw a commercial about a show on June 9 about....you guessed it....9-11.
I know a lot of people died on that day but how much longer is the U.S. media going to milk it?
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05.24.08 - 1:54 pm | #
Die kleindorfen, nicht so viel.
plantsman, |
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05.24.08 - 1:54 pm | #
BTW: I love the example ad they have at Walk Score...the fake stores and restaurants they list:
"Durn Good Grocery"
"Rocking Wok"
Sorry, but I probably wouldn't frequent those places if they were in my city...
Zap Rowsdower |
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05.24.08 - 1:54 pm | #
I dunno, I think Rockin' Wok is a great name for a theme Chinese restaurant.
Molly Ivors |
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05.24.08 - 1:54 pm | #
Beautiful day for a picnic yesterday. Sorry that I couldn't make it.
The New Yorkers had a picnic?
[gets big fat pillow to put big fat head and cry]
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 1:55 pm | #
The dyk'e's built to take a flood like 1ike 1896 plus a couple of feet, most people around here have some kind of boat though...
doug r |
05.24.08 - 1:55 pm | #
Singing Pants?
The Bathroom Lesbians first hit.
Bjorn, nonkosherjewforO |
05.24.08 - 1:55 pm | #
Sorry, that was supposed to be "an Elvis-themed Chinese restaurant.'
Molly Ivors |
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05.24.08 - 1:56 pm | #
Molly,
Within six blocks I have three markets, six coffee places, two dry cleaners, two shoe repairs, a fish place, two bakeries, Korean/Chinese/Italian/Japanese/Frenchy restaurants, three pizza places, two drug stores, a copy shop, a diner, and a video place. That's what I can remember right now.
res ipsa loquitur |
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05.24.08 - 1:56 pm | #
I concur on London Drugs: bought computer, vcr, dishwasher, grinder, chopper , toaster oven and even some drugs there.
doug r
The first time I visited my friend in Calgary back in November 1999, we went to one of those.
Couldn't believe all the stuff they sold.
Terry C - Dangerous Liberal |
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05.24.08 - 1:56 pm | #
Yeah Plantsman, but the villages have the advantage of a couple of shops in the center (even the tiniest one has an Eduscho shop/bakery) and a bus stop.
Marcellina |
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05.24.08 - 1:56 pm | #
95 here in Chicago. This year my car sat unused for so long that I permanently ruined the battery.
Kelly |
05.24.08 - 1:56 pm | #
Since when does lack of comprehensive knowledge stop people from having an opinion and repeating it loudly and obnoxiously?
In SF, new Chinese restaurants with immigrant clientele were very brightly lit, established ones Anglos frequented, dimmer.
Got stoned with my friend Jane one night and walked into a REALLY BRIGHT one. We were so uncomfortable -- and fucked up.
plantsman, |
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05.24.08 - 1:57 pm | #
That's what I can remember right now.
No lumber yard? No granite dealer?
Gromit, lurking & working |
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05.24.08 - 1:57 pm | #
res,
I may try to come down for that.
Molly Ivors |
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05.24.08 - 1:57 pm | #
I hate haloscan.
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 1:59 pm | #
On Thursday I took a trip to see some of the old towns in the Sacramento River delta.
Isleton and Locke are still pretty cool. Some moron tried to build some yuppie condos outisde of Isleton and they look like pure shit. I doubt that project will ever meet the developer's dreams or anything close to it.
The entire town of Locke was built by Chinese in the second decade of the 20th century. It's virtually unchanged. Half the buildings on main street (i.e., about ten of them
) are empty. The long-abandoned Star Theatre is leaning out into the street at a 20 degree angle.
We had lunch and a couple beers at Al the Wop's Tavern, a virtual time machine (except for the inconspicuous flat screen TV in one corner) that doesn't look it has been renovated for forty or fifty years. The hamburgers are priced for the tourists, unfortunately (9 bucks) but they're good.
Stunt Woman |
05.24.08 - 1:59 pm | #
OKy, one more errand to run. *mwah!*
Molly Ivors |
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05.24.08 - 1:59 pm | #
haloscan, i understand that you've got no short term memory left after all those years of hard partying, but come on. just fuckin' refresh, okay?
watertiger |
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05.24.08 - 1:59 pm | #
American hawk seems to think that cars have been around for 30,000 years or so. What a fucking moron.
Electricity hasn't been around for that long either... so a city without electricity could totally succeed. Definitely. How about you move there first?
American Hawk |
05.24.08 - 1:59 pm | #
Oddly enough, I'm off to walk to my food co-op.
Cookie Fleck `08 |
05.24.08 - 1:59 pm | #
Walk Score: 98 out of 100
Those of you Atriots who were here in October know what a great location the North End of Boston is to everything.
Gotta go now and walk to Haymarket for my fruits and veggies.
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05.24.08 - 1:59 pm | #
I've been to Locke, moons ago.
plantsman, |
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05.24.08 - 2:00 pm | #
Molly,
There is one "spa" -- it's really just a salon, though.
Yes, come down.
Monica_A, You come up.
That one will start 5:15PMish.
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I dunno, I think Rockin' Wok is a great name for a theme Chinese restaurant.
There used to be this lame TV chef that wore these "wok-themed" aprons all the time.
Those of you Atriots who were here in October know what a great location the North End of Boston is to everything.
The was a gathering of Atriots in Boston and nobody invited me? This is because I'm married to a Greek, isn't it?
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 2:00 pm | #
Electricity has always existed; people haven't always harnessed and used it.
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05.24.08 - 2:01 pm | #
The was a gathering of Atriots in Boston and nobody invited me? This is because I'm married to a Greek, isn't it?
Monica_A: Dammit!
The Greeks don't want no freaks.
Cookie Fleck `08 |
05.24.08 - 2:02 pm | #
And the up north crowd continues to taunt me with their juicy ability to be car-free.
later bats...gotta help straighten/clean the house cause there is a party for the cast after the play tonite.
SO demands neatness for the guests. I understand it, but need to be whipped to do it.
I prefer to stock the refer with beer and other goodies.
the entire dining room table is covered with my job search and other accumulated paper work. must file...or dump in a bag.
love to all.
you are the bestest people.
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05.24.08 - 2:02 pm | #
Gonna schedule another one to mark the summer solstice, i.e., Friday, June 20th ...
That's the weekend that Sinfonian'll be in town, as well.
peterboy, dump it in a bag!
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05.24.08 - 2:03 pm | #
The Greeks don't want no freaks.
The Greeks (in my family) are the freaks!
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 2:03 pm | #
Don't city planners ever look at Boston?
I ran around the Charles River in the mornings; I walked to work and everywhere else when I lived there. And, when I needed to, I walked to a subway station or rented a car for big trips.
I was in the best shape of my life when I lived in Boston.
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05.24.08 - 2:04 pm | #
good afternoon. i think i overdid it out there this morning. i can't seem to get off this chair.
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05.24.08 - 2:04 pm | #
Electricity hasn't been around for that long either... so a city without electricity could totally succeed. Definitely. How about you move there first?
American Hawk | 05.24.08 - 1:59 pm | #
Look, you already proved you were a fucking moron. Do you have to add obnoxious fuckwad to it? Or can we stop at pissy-pants coward?
You're just an ignorant, backwards pig.
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05.24.08 - 2:05 pm | #
Electricity has always existed; people haven't always harnessed and used it.
Humans still have not harnessed it's most obvious form, lightening storms.
Me and my son, the polymath physicist, have talked about this, how one AZ storm could power up that town for a year. We've got a few ideas but none that are practicable nor safe.
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05.24.08 - 2:05 pm | #
Have a drink, chi dy. planting uses odd muscles.
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The Greeks don't want no freaks.
Someone always has to take it to the limit.
JeffCO |
05.24.08 - 2:05 pm | #
Don't city planners ever look at Boston?
Boston was designed by cows. Wherever the cows wandered they made paths. Those paths became roads.
Except for the back bay of course. That's just built on garbage dumped in the bay.
MikeJ |
05.24.08 - 2:05 pm | #
Don't city planners ever look at Boston?
On a sort-of related them, my latest blog post discusses Boston's green roofs.
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05.24.08 - 2:06 pm | #
"Wok Your Dog"
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an apron for Toby!
ronjazz |
05.24.08 - 2:06 pm | #
The was a gathering of Atriots in Boston and nobody invited me? This is because I'm married to a Greek, isn't it?
Any good restaurateurs in your family?
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05.24.08 - 2:06 pm | #
No. It was because you're black.
well, i learned here that all new yorkers are jewish, so that probably played a role too, monica.
chicago dyke, tired |
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05.24.08 - 2:07 pm | #
Walkscore isn't necessarily all that accurate, it depends on what has been input to Google maps...
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05.24.08 - 2:07 pm | #
Huh. My WALKSCORE is 57... I thought it would have been higher than that. I'm very near a grocery store, barber shop, mechanics, two colleges, a high school, a public ballfield (with night lights and triple-a ball), and the lagrest hospital in the area. The only thing I can figure is that there aren't a lot of shops around here for clothes and whatnot. Interesting site!
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well, i learned here that all new yorkers are jewish, so that probably played a role too, monica.
It would be a bear to keep Walkscore current, too.
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05.24.08 - 2:09 pm | #
No. It was because you're black.
Well! You're finally admitting it. I knew you white liberals were really racists. I knew it all the time! I've been secretly gathering information for BLAME (Black Liberation Army Made Easy). I'll just use what I've learned to destroy you.
Good chatting with youz...later!
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05.24.08 - 2:09 pm | #
If you go 17 minutes in to this YouTube, you'll see a city being built in China where every home and office will be no more than 5 minutes from public transport. To be effective, mass transportation has to be accessible not only by strong young people, but by parents w/ strollers, old folks, and people carrying shopping bags. Five minutes makes that lots easier than 20.
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05.24.08 - 2:10 pm | #
racypicnic on the Meadow ....
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05.24.08 - 2:10 pm | #
Any good restaurateurs in your family?
They aren't that smart.
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 2:10 pm | #
i can pretty much walk to everything i need here, if i wanted to. supposedly the bus service here was voted "#1 in america" in terms of quality, service and price. the voters said no to a mill increase this time around, but the bus people are going to try again this fall. i don't think they'll get it tho, every other frakking house around here is for sale and no one is hiring.
chicago dyke, tired |
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05.24.08 - 2:10 pm | #
Hope that city wasn't in Sichuan.
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05.24.08 - 2:11 pm | #
It would be a bear to keep Walkscore current, too.
I presume it is piggy-backing on google maps.
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05.24.08 - 2:11 pm | #
and since all Jews are racists...
That follows from their voting Republican.
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05.24.08 - 2:11 pm | #
I've been to Locke, moons ago.
Someone told me they filmed part of that Woody Guthrie biopic there (the one with Carradine).
Stunt Woman |
05.24.08 - 2:11 pm | #
and since all Jews are racists...
it's so good to be understood.
chicago dyke, tired |
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05.24.08 - 2:12 pm | #
Boston was designed by cows. Wherever the cows wandered they made paths. Those paths became roads.
I read once about a couple of new building, I think maybe in an office park, where they built the buildings and then waited a year or so to put down walkways. They watched what paths folks had made in the grass and those became the paved paths.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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05.24.08 - 2:12 pm | #
Walkscore isn't necessarily all that accurate, it depends on what has been input to Google maps...
Mine's only 91 - hard to figure what's missing. The streetview still creeps me out though.
JeffCO |
05.24.08 - 2:12 pm | #
I had my class do the "walkscore" for where they grew up. The range was from 4 (rural Illinois farm) to 100 (Manhattan)
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05.24.08 - 2:13 pm | #
People what is Obama's plan to lower the cost of fuel? Does anyone know and has anyone asked him? Just wondering.
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05.24.08 - 2:13 pm | #
Chi Dy, I was gonna mention; those battery-powered portable electric fences with fiberglass poles shock deer on their moist noses, and scare them off. After a few shocks they avoid them.
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05.24.08 - 2:14 pm | #
Hecate- in an urban planning class I read about a university that did that. It was long enough ago that I forget which University
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05.24.08 - 2:14 pm | #
No, it's being built in a greenfield and they're literally just picking up the landscape and putting it on the roofs. All green roofs w bridges so the farmers can go from roof to roof. No need to spend money and waste resources hauling food into the city from the country. I'm really in love with this architect/city planner/philosopher.
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05.24.08 - 2:15 pm | #
what is Obama's plan to lower the cost of fuel?
Being that mouth breathers like bugs will not conserve energy, unless the hit to their wallet forces them to, I'm not sure he should.
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05.24.08 - 2:15 pm | #
The mailman was blasting "OPP" from his truck. Strange.
Monica_A: Dammit! |
05.24.08 - 2:15 pm | #
It could have been a university that I read about. I always thought it was a neat idea.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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05.24.08 - 2:16 pm | #
jesus krist i hate microsoft. they suck harder than the dog burner at times.
chicago dyke, tired |
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05.24.08 - 2:16 pm | #
what is Obama's plan to lower the cost of fuel?
I read that he's going to do it by decreasing demand, specifically by relegating everyone with an I.Q. south of 90 to the modern-day equivalent of Botany Bay.
Enjoy your voyage, motherfucker!
And thanks for 2008!
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05.24.08 - 2:17 pm | #
IIRC, it was U of Hardknox.
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05.24.08 - 2:17 pm | #
The streetview still creeps me out though.
You going to put that milk back in the fridge?
watertiger
The old joke - I was seeing this girl for about a year... until she started closing her curtains at night! [rim shot]
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05.24.08 - 2:17 pm | #
What happened to Obama's supporters? You know Oprah, Sharpton, Rev. Wright, Jesse Jackson, Farrakan etc, Why don't we see these people on Obama's campaign trail? We only see white people, why is that?
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05.24.08 - 2:18 pm | #
jesus krist i hate microsoft. they suck harder than the dog burner at times. chicago dyke
Toby thinks he's not a bug, he's a feature.
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05.24.08 - 2:18 pm | #
I read that he's going to do it by decreasing demand, specifically by relegating everyone with an I.Q. south of 90 to the modern-day equivalent of Botany Bay.
hec, be sure to teach the grandtyke mandarin, just sayin.
chicago dyke, tired |
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05.24.08 - 2:18 pm | #
From the AdNags article:
Mr. McCain has taken steps to inject new thinking into his campaign. He recently expanded his extremely tight circle of advisers by bringing on Nicolle Wallace, who was communications director for Mr. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign, which many Republicans view as the model for political management.
"New thinking" -- 2004 style. Ehhhhhxcellent.
Last Sunday, he invited Mike Murphy, his longtime friend and political adviser, who is not involved in this campaign, to his home in Virginia. There, Mr. Murphy reportedly gave him a detailed and at times tough assessment of what Mr. McCain had done wrong.
Mr. Murphy urged him to tone down his attacks on Mr. Obama and stop coming across as so angry. He recommended that Mr. McCain concentrate on running as a reform candidate to strip that issue from Mr. Obama, and to make greater efforts to distance himself from Mr. Bush, according to Republicans familiar with the conversation.
Some of Mr. McCain’s associates said that Mr. McCain might be interested in bringing Mr. Murphy back on board, but that his current circle of advisers was resisting that.
More good news.
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05.24.08 - 2:19 pm | #
Enjoy your voyage, motherfucker!
I think I figured out why your nabe got a 98, res - you're closer to a big park.
From nowhere, for people who like bad news. Oh boy.
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05.24.08 - 2:20 pm | #
walkscore could use some tweaking because I only got an 85, and I can spend days, probably weeks not driving or even taking the subway, if not for work getting in the way.
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05.24.08 - 2:20 pm | #
be sure to teach the grandtyke mandarin, just sayin.
No kidding. It sure was brilliant for the Chimp in Chief to lease our grandkids' future to the Chinese.
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05.24.08 - 2:21 pm | #
It's time for Eurovision Song Contest Finals!
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05.24.08 - 2:21 pm | #
It stuck w/ me because I was reading John Barth's The End of the Road where an opinionated major character said "Paths should be laid where people walk". It always seemed to make sense to me.
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05.24.08 - 2:21 pm | #
The old joke - I was seeing this girl for about a year... until she started closing her curtains at night! [rim shot]
one of my places in chicago was next to some houses with Angry Teens. they used to play the worst deathspeedmetalnoise when the folks were away. i thought to do my part in keeping them from a life of crime and drugs by leaving my windows uncurtained and making a point to get dressed near them. it was cute, those boys would always blush like turnips when we passed each other on the street.
chicago dyke, tired |
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05.24.08 - 2:21 pm | #
People what is Obama's plan to lower the cost of fuel? Does anyone know and has anyone asked him? Just wondering.
Bugs | 05.24.08 - 2:13 pm | #
Getting elected will have that effect, moron racist.
ronjazz |
05.24.08 - 2:21 pm | #
Bugs, the anti-Obama troll who fails to see how much it reveals about itself.
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05.24.08 - 2:21 pm | #
From nowhere, for people who like bad news. Oh boy.
Or just go to distrowatch and download a few distros to find the one you like.
Doug |
05.24.08 - 2:22 pm | #
I got an 83 but how accurate can this be when the closest bookstore it identified was a porn shop?!!!
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05.24.08 - 2:22 pm | #
More from AdNags:
The string of departures from the campaign was prompted by questions about lobbying activities by aides and advisers to Mr. McCainand a new policy, dictated by Mr. McCain, that active lobbyists not be allowed to hold paying jobs in the campaign. Mr. Schmidt said that policy was an example of how Mr. McCain would take tough action, part of a contrast he said they would draw with Mr. Obama for “giving great speeches” but having no record of accomplishment.
But Mr. McCain’s associates said the campaign had failed to anticipate the extent to which the news media would use the policy to examine Mr. McCain’s staff. The result was a run of damaging stories and resignations that highlighted not the policy itself but the backgrounds of top campaign officials, including Rick Davis, the campaign manager, and Mr. Black, both of whom have long lobbying backgrounds.
Mavericky!
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05.24.08 - 2:22 pm | #
He recommended that Mr. McCain concentrate on running as a reform candidate to strip that issue from Mr. Obama,
I have no doubt that the MSM can make this happen, but that's some pretty strong kool aid. McCain's been a DC insider since before simels was in knee pants. Obama's so new to DC as to be called inexperienced.
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05.24.08 - 2:23 pm | #
I got an 83 but how accurate can this be when the closest bookstore it identified was a porn shop?!!!
But it is a Christian Porn Bookshop?
plantsman, |
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05.24.08 - 2:23 pm | #
Mine's only 91 - hard to figure what's missing. The streetview still creeps me out though.
JeffCO | 05.24.08 - 2:12 pm | #
I discovered my sister's new place in Chino Hills is on streetview. I'm not going to tell her that, i'll freak her out.
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05.24.08 - 2:23 pm | #
Mr. Murphy urged him to tone down his attacks on Mr. Obama and stop coming across as so angry.
granpa's grumpy because his depends are full again and cindy's too drunk to change em.
chicago dyke, tired |
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AdNags on Concern:
Some Republicans said they were concerned that the Democrats would soon unify around Mr. Obama, and that it was only a matter of weeks before Mr. Obama began unloading a huge round of advertising intended to define Mr. McCain. If that happens, they said, Mr. McCain may look back at this period as a time of missed opportunity.
Heh.
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05.24.08 - 2:24 pm | #
We only see white people, why is that?
Bugs | 05.24.08 - 2:18 pm | #
White people can't support 1/2-white Obama?
ronjazz |
05.24.08 - 2:24 pm | #
The three houses I lived in as a kid (NE Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire) had walk scores of 0, 3 and 8
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05.24.08 - 2:24 pm | #
granpa's grumpy because his depends are full again and cindy's too drunk to change em.
No returns on the Thong of Solomon.
JeffCO |
05.24.08 - 2:25 pm | #
Paths should be laid where people walk". It always seemed to make sense to me.
You'd think. It's always funny to see those paths of dirt in the grass, worn by people actually walking there, instead of along the 90 degree sidewalks.
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05.24.08 - 2:25 pm | #
I got an 83 but how accurate can this be when the closest bookstore it identified was a porn shop?!!!
Ian S | 05.24.08 - 2:22 pm | #
sounds like a 93 is in order.
ronjazz |
05.24.08 - 2:25 pm | #
And finally:
Mr. McCain has made some gains in reassuring conservatives nervous about his views on issues like immigration, polls suggest. But if he is going to rely on turnout within the Republican base more than on winning over independents and disaffected Democrats, there is evidence that he has not gone as far as needs to — particularly given how energized Democrats appear to be.
“He is going to need extraordinary participation of Republicans if Democrats continue to flock to the polls the way they have,” said Kris Kobach, the Republican Party leader from Kansas. “It’s critical that he use this period to generate enthusiasm from his base.”
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05.24.08 - 2:25 pm | #
Getting elected will have that effect, moron racist.
ronjazz
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No, first you want to know what Obama is going to do and how he is going to do it.
Just say, hope & change doesn't make or change anything!
Bugs |
05.24.08 - 2:25 pm | #
If that happens, they said, Mr. McCain may look back at this period as a time of missed opportunity.
That Mary Magdalene is HAWT!
Doug |
05.24.08 - 2:26 pm | #
and Mr. Black, both of whom have long lobbying backgrounds.
atrios was working for mccentury? that is mavericky!
chicago dyke, tired |
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05.24.08 - 2:26 pm | #
Good thing to do with someone like McBush is just ask him, very calmly, "Why are you so angry?"
At which point he'll say, "I'M NOT ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!"
res ipsa loquitur |
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05.24.08 - 2:26 pm | #
it was only a matter of weeks before Mr. Obama began unloading a huge round of advertising intended to define Mr. McCain. If that happens, they said, Mr. McCain may look back at this period as a time of missed opportunity.
So mote it be. Obama starts that and I'll have to unleash some turkee.
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05.24.08 - 2:26 pm | #
Just say, hope & change doesn't make or change anything!
Bugs | 05.24.08 - 2:25 pm | #
wrong again, fuckwit. throwing liars and thieves out of the White House will have the immediate effect of lowering prices. You are one stupid little racist fuckwit.
ronjazz |
05.24.08 - 2:26 pm | #
Hecate- that was one of the interesting times when Lit class fit w/ policy class.
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05.24.08 - 2:27 pm | #
So mote it be. Obama starts that and I'll have to unleash some turkee.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Not that I have a huge amount, but I haven't really started with the serious turkee. Not on the scale I did for Howard Dean or others in 2004.
We've only begun to fight...
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05.24.08 - 2:28 pm | #
“It’s critical that he use this period to generate enthusiasm from his base.”
heh. that's not going to happen. they hate him, the base does. and picking mitt the moroni worshipper won't help that at all.
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05.24.08 - 2:28 pm | #
“He is going to need extraordinary diebolding and breakdowns of the few voting machines even sent to African American polling places if Democrats continue to flock to the polls the way they have,” said Kris Kobach, the Republican Party leader from Kansas. “
I fondled your tympanium
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05.24.08 - 2:29 pm | #
I feel like Miss Mary Sunshine spreading the goodies from that AdNags article.
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05.24.08 - 2:30 pm | #
and durty sox.
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doug, thanks for the list. the problem is hotmail. i have to keep my account there or older family members won't be able to reach me by email (don't ask) and i'm just sick and tired of the way it doesn't function for shit and the ads are always jumping out at me and making me move the cursor all over the place just to hit "send" and....you get the drift.
chicago dyke, tired |
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05.24.08 - 2:31 pm | #
How come Hucksterbee didn't get the invite to McBush's "ranch" this weekend?
McBush prefers a blow-dried bronzered phony to a squirrel-popping fascist?
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05.24.08 - 2:31 pm | #
So mote it be. Obama starts that and I'll have to unleash some turkee.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Not that I have a huge amount, but I haven't really started with the serious turkee. Not on the scale I did for Howard Dean or others in 2004.
We've only begun to fight...
Well the interesting thing is that, if Obama is the nominee, I get to start fresh w the turkee. Not that I wouldn't rather spend it on landscaping, but this election is important and, assuming his supporters don't manage to thoroughly piss me off, I'm willing to consider it an investment in G/Son's future.
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05.24.08 - 2:31 pm | #
happy memorial day weekend.
bugs, this one is dedicated to you.
The nation's highest military honor will be given to 19-year-old Army Pfc. Ross McGinnis of Knox, Pa., on June 2.
It stuck w/ me because I was reading John Barth's The End of the Road where an opinionated major character said "Paths should be laid where people walk"
Don't ever give that book to someone who is depressed.
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05.24.08 - 2:33 pm | #
No, first you want to know what Obama is going to do and how he is going to do it.
I would suggest you go to his website and read his plans.
Einstein.
Just say, hope & change doesn't make or change anything!
Eat shit, you stupid motherfucker.
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05.24.08 - 2:33 pm | #
mestizo- yup. and all those years ahead of him to suffer from PTSD and whatnot. thanks, chimpy. i'm sure the shiny piece of metal will make up for all that.
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05.24.08 - 2:34 pm | #
are they going to let us negres vote this year? wow, that will be a nice change.
chicago dyke, tired | Homepa
My friend and teacher Katrina says that Miami was the first time that white Americans got to experience what she's been living with all her life. I think we're all going to be shocked at what we see this November.
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05.24.08 - 2:35 pm | #
"According to the Phoenix Business Journal, fundraiser set for this Tuesday in the city's convention center failed to sell enough tickets, leading to fears that the anti-Bush protesters might end up outnumbering actual attendees." http://
tpmelectioncentral.talkin...er_scaled_b.php
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05.24.08 - 2:36 pm | #
i am suddenly in need of a nap.
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05.24.08 - 2:36 pm | #
phila is very funny:
First they came for Big Tobacco, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a board member of R.J. Reynolds.
Then they came for Big Oil, and I did not speak up because I was not an ExxonMobil shareholder.
Then they came for Steven Milloy, and I did not speak up because he was such a douchebag.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up (except for WorldNetDaily, and they were too busy covering the connection between immigration and Morgellons disease).
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05.24.08 - 2:36 pm | #
No, first you want to know what Obama is going to do and how he is going to do it.
Bugs
I read that he's going to have Bush arrested on his way out of the White House and then send goon squads gunning for all of Bush's cross-eyed Z-list wanna-be lackeys.
So you better take cover in your sister's hope chest. She won't need it until she turns fourteen next year, right?
Thanks again for 2008!
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05.24.08 - 2:36 pm | #
leno on mcsame last night (did i actually watch leno?)...
"mccain is hosting 3 possible VP's, i hope he doesn't offer them ribbon candy"
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05.24.08 - 2:37 pm | #
Leibnitz- I would never do that, but it worked in a Lit of Existentialism class (& covered 2 distros- Phil & English).
tomdurk |
05.24.08 - 2:37 pm | #
It'll take until Gson is an adult to un-fuck everything up, Hecate.
Sadly, I think it will take a lot longer than that. I'm still really only half hoping for James Lovelock's "soft landing."
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05.24.08 - 2:37 pm | #
I think we white folks are all going to be shocked at what we see this November.
fiddled your tomato.
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05.24.08 - 2:39 pm | #
Poor ticket sales, expected protests scuttle Bush-McCain fundraiser at Phoenix Convention Center
Proof that rethugs are lousy marketeers. All they'd have to do was to set up a carnival dunking chair that attendees could toss a baseball at with either McCain or GWB sitting in. There'd be a long line for the tickets, if they did that.
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05.24.08 - 2:39 pm | #
Heh. In spite of their "immigrant music" that is driving my wingnut neighbor insane, I just watched the second one of my other neighbors to walk over and ask the stonemason working on my yard for their card. Heh.
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05.24.08 - 2:40 pm | #
trifecta-- How is Bavaria?
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I think we white folks are all going to be shocked at what we see this November.
Well I sure as hell hope so.
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05.24.08 - 2:40 pm | #
I'm willing to consider it an investment in G/Son's future.
Very good point, Hecate. And this would be true no matter who the dem candidate was.
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05.24.08 - 2:41 pm | #
fiddled your tomato
Fair enough. I just think we're going to see diebolding and voter intimidation and "gee what a surprise" broken machines on a scale we've never seen, and by we, I also mean African Americans, this fall. And I don't see Dean or Obama or anyone doing anything about it.
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05.24.08 - 2:42 pm | #
"Eat shit, you stupid motherfucker.
billy b 05.24.08 - 2:33 pm"
Ah, the Unity, the Hope, the compassion, such a refreshing Change.
DeanOR |
05.24.08 - 2:42 pm | #
Proof that rethugs are lousy marketeers.
but how does that explain '00 and '04?
i think they are amazing marketers, in any sane and grown-up country teh GOP would be a fucking joke, here they win the majority of presidencies (at least in the past 40 years)
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05.24.08 - 2:42 pm | #
seriously, i do wonder what it will be like this fall, voting wise. it's not like anything has been done to address the many problems with the machines, and the same crooked clowns keep showing up at various sec of state offices across the country. i read a while back that one of the bozos responsible for the fiasco in OH in 04 got a new job. in more or less the same capacity in CA. frankly, if you people are correct and obama's as popular as you say, it'll be the only way they can beat him, fucking with the machines and whatnot.
chicago dyke, tired |
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05.24.08 - 2:42 pm | #
Well, it is pouring here in Southern Illinois on the outskirts of St. Louis.
The toddler finally is in a coma, the wife is out shopping, and I am on dial up. This is one of those areas where there is no broadband through phones or cable.
Where's this secret video they've got Mrs. Obama going off on whitey?
I demand to be insulted!
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05.24.08 - 2:42 pm | #
trifecta-- How is Bavaria?
Gromit
trifecta's in Bavaria? Well that explains why we don't have a scrabulous game going.
qlª |
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05.24.08 - 2:42 pm | #
I just love how the media first tells Hillary she can't use the word "white" when quoting an AP article and now she can't use the word "assassination" this is so bizarre and rediculous and for fat head Olberman to come out and try and act righteous after he threatened her "taking her into a room and only one coming out" is beyond belief.
If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. didn't take offense and understood exactly what she was saying, who are you to take offense?
Bugs |
05.24.08 - 2:42 pm | #
Eeexcellent. Your plan is working perfectly!
[rubs hands together]
Do they need a bigger portable stereo?
Gromit, lurking & working |
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05.24.08 - 2:43 pm | #
The old joke - I was seeing this girl for about a year... until she started closing her curtains at night! [rim shot]
You don't need streetview for Google Maps to be creepy: http://maps.google.com/maps?
f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=52.078715+4.332777&ie=UTF8&ll
=52.078723,4.332777&spn=0.000098,0.000161&t=h&z=22
&iwloc=addr
here is your vodka, goddess H. unless it's too early and you'd like a coke instead.
chicago dyke, tired |
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05.24.08 - 2:43 pm | #
The Repigs will be trying to keep students and black people away from the polls. There will be a lot of attempted suppression on college campuses, not unlike what we saw in OH in 2004.
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05.24.08 - 2:44 pm | #
frankly, if you people are correct and obama's as popular as you say, it'll be the only way they can beat him, fucking with the machines and whatnot.
I firmly believe that John McCain has people who completely understand this on his payroll. I have friends inside the Obama campaign and my understanding is that he is not at all focused on this. It keeps me up at night, it does.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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05.24.08 - 2:44 pm | #
Proof that rethugs are lousy marketeers.
"but how does that explain '00 and '04?
i think they are amazing vote thieves,"
Found your turmeric.
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05.24.08 - 2:44 pm | #
Well, it is pouring here in Southern Illinois on the outskirts of St. Louis.
Well, it's gonna be a long time before you get to Germany.
I do remember now that you're the dude driving 3000 miles with seven babies
Who was going to Bavaria?
Gromit, lurking & working |
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05.24.08 - 2:45 pm | #
ql, I drove past Paducah, Kentucky yesterday.
I did not know we had a national quilt museum, and it was there. I didn't stop off for a quiltathon. It was a long day.
The toddler got car sick in the Tennessee mountains, and it was a 650 mile drive and all.
trifecta (vacationing) |
05.24.08 - 2:45 pm | #
Fair enough. I just think we're going to see diebolding and voter intimidation and "gee what a surprise" broken machines on a scale we've never seen, and by we, I also mean African Americans, this fall. And I don't see Dean or Obama or anyone doing anything about it.
Hecate,
I don't see it being as bad. You can steal a state here or there, but not all 50. From what I'm seeing and hearing, it could wind up being a major blowout.
qlª |
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05.24.08 - 2:45 pm | #
Hecate:
and by we, I also mean African Americans
You don't speak for Black Americans. This community certainly doesn't. Y'alls demographic is caucasoid, overeducated, and post-American.
Toby Petzold |
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05.24.08 - 2:45 pm | #
Ugh - That McGinnis kid committed suicide by throwing himself on a grenade to save his fellow soldiers.
Sounds similar to another story from about 40 years ago. Ann the Mann Coulter swift boated Max Cleland for the same thing.
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05.24.08 - 2:46 pm | #
I have friends inside the Obama campaign and my understanding is that he is not at all focused on this.
i spoke with one of the members of kerry's legal team, and it was the same problem. none of the nationals want to take it seriously. i don't get it, not at all.
chicago dyke, tired |
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05.24.08 - 2:46 pm | #
Not with the brilliant work they're doing. I'm no expert, but these guys are really, really good and they work from sunup to sundown. What they've done in just a few two weeks is amazing. I'll try and put up pic later on my blog. They're really artists.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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05.24.08 - 2:46 pm | #
I don't see it being as bad. You can steal a state here or there, but not all 50. From what I'm seeing and hearing, it could wind up being a major blowout.
If they try to do this and fail, a few convictions of treason (for vote fiddling) after the election, may put a stop to this.
Doug |
05.24.08 - 2:47 pm | #
The toddler got car sick in the Tennessee mountains, and it was a 650 mile drive and all.
trifecta
I shouldn't laugh but upthread I was lamenting that my little girls are all grown up and not playing dress up anymore. This is the other side of not having little girls anymore.
qlª |
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05.24.08 - 2:47 pm | #
Sadly, I think it will take a lot longer than that. I'm still really only half hoping for James Lovelock's "soft landing."
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 2:37 pm
Is anyone actually SURPRISED by Olbermann's reaction. He hates Hillary. Period. The media (and MSNBC) has brutalized Senator Clinton for the past 6 months... and nobody has been fired.
So screw 'em. Don't waste time on any of this crap.
Bugs |
05.24.08 - 2:47 pm | #
Golly, I wish Rush would pay me more than 50 cents per post to hang around here and look like a moron.
Bugs |
05.24.08 - 2:48 pm | #
Who's in Bavaria?
Marcellina
Someone was talking about an imminent trip yesterday or the day before. Damned if I can remember who.
Now where'd I put my glasses?
Gromit, lurking & working |
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05.24.08 - 2:48 pm | #
Ah, the Unity, the Hope, the compassion, such a refreshing Change.
DeanOR
You want some, bump bump?
Step on out there.
billy b |
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05.24.08 - 2:49 pm | #
they don't have to fuck with voting in all states, just some key ones. i will never believe anything other than a plan by republicans is responsible for what happened in OH in 04. i'm sorry, but i expect a repeat of that this time around. perhaps not in OH, but some other that's critical for BHO.
chicago dyke, tired |
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05.24.08 - 2:49 pm | #
The crazy suggestions Olberman made in his speech went beyond lunacy, and in my opinion, incited violence. We all know there are a lot of unstable people out there who don't need any seeds planted in their heads. It is VERY inappropriate for a public figure with a national audience to be so reckless and dangerous with his words. The man needs to be fired
Bugs |
05.24.08 - 2:49 pm | #
Here in Texas, everybody's criticizing the AG for his supposed "witch hunt" against voter fraud ---mostly because there were so few cases and all were Democrat.
But it's a stone fact that Dems are more likely to commit fraud because of their inherently unstructured moral value system.
Toby Petzold |
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05.24.08 - 2:49 pm | #
i think they are amazing vote thieves,"
touche' doug, but i don't give the ratwangers the credit to pull off that type of stunt, however i do credit them for knowing the pulse of the average american-idiot
"the subliminal mind-fuck america!"
/green day
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05.24.08 - 2:50 pm | #
I'm voting for they guy who inspires my complete confidence: the coot with the biggest facial tumor.
John Cancer McChipmunk.
He's got the squirrel vote nailed, assuming he survives until November!
Bugs |
05.24.08 - 2:51 pm | #
BTW, my compliments to all those who completely ignored the four letter troll on the early threads today. Y'all were a model of restraint.
Then she melted down in public when Atrios showed up. Pathetic.
Gromit, lurking & working |
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05.24.08 - 2:51 pm | #
well, i have some hose to roll up. i think i'm rested up enough to try. bbl.
chicago dyke, tired |
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05.24.08 - 2:51 pm | #
they don't have to fuck with voting in all states, just some key ones. i will never believe anything other than a plan by republicans is responsible for what happened in OH in 04. i'm sorry, but i expect a repeat of that this time around. perhaps not in OH, but some other that's critical for BHO.
chicago dyke, tired | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 2:49 pm |
Luckily, the Sec of State and Gov in Ohio are now Dems (Our dem AG just resigned), so it'll be harder for them to steal it.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins |
05.24.08 - 2:52 pm | #
But it's a stone fact that Dems are more likely to commit fraud because of their inherently unstructured moral value system.
Tubby, you're hallucinating. You're only supposed to eat the mushrooms that come out of the cow shit. Not the cow shit too.
billy b |
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05.24.08 - 2:54 pm | #
This gentleman?
That's the one. Read Gaia's Revenge if you ever want to be able to stay up all night worrying.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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05.24.08 - 2:55 pm | #
i will never believe anything other than a plan by republicans is responsible for what happened in OH in 04.
What she said.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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05.24.08 - 2:56 pm | #
Then she melted down in public when Atrios showed up. Pathetic.
If the pics shown were really the person, she's crazy as hell. It's in the eyes.
billy b |
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05.24.08 - 2:57 pm | #
But it's a stone fact that Dems are more likely to commit fraud because of their inherently unstructured moral value system
meh. the failure to discern an integral structure lies with whom, exactly?
Sincerely Rosetta |
05.24.08 - 2:57 pm | #
they don't have to fuck with voting in all states, just some key ones.
i will never believe anything other than a plan by republicans is
responsible for what happened in OH in 04. i'm sorry, but i expect a
repeat of that this time around. perhaps not in OH, but some other
that's critical for BHO.
That's the heart of the 50 state strategy. If most voters would agree with you anyway, might as well give them ALL a chance to elect you. Making the Republics run a 50 state defence makes me happy too...
Just what is a "structured moral value system" for the troll?
Only jacking off into the cheap discount store panties while saving the nice ones for laying around reading Soldier of Fortune? You gotta live by a code, ya know.
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05.24.08 - 2:57 pm | #
01/20/09 Celebrate the end of the Bush mal-administration.
The Repigs will be trying to keep students and black people away from the polls. There will be a lot of attempted suppression on college campuses, not unlike what we saw in OH in 2004.
res ipsa loquitur
I think they've been building anti-"illegal" immigrant resentment to the point where a whole lot of hispanic voters will be challenged. The more people are kept from voting, the more likely Rove's math will actually work.
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05.24.08 - 2:58 pm | #
This gentleman?
That's the one. Read Gaia's Revenge if you ever want to be able to stay up all night worrying.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 2:55 pm |
I have that from the library right now.
Is the 'g' a soft or hard 'g'?
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins |
05.24.08 - 2:59 pm | #
stone fact
This is another one of those little phrases that tells you what you're reading comes direct from RNC troll central.
Gromit, lurking & working |
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05.24.08 - 2:59 pm | #
This is another one of those little phrases that tells you what you're reading comes direct from RNC troll central.
heh.
republic platitudes.
billy b |
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05.24.08 - 3:03 pm | #
Hi Moonbootica you crazy kid, how are you?
focus |
05.24.08 - 3:06 pm | #
Starting to stink of trolls. Sheets?
doug r |
05.24.08 - 3:06 pm | #
I shouldn't laugh but upthread I was lamenting that my little girls are all grown up and not playing dress up anymore. This is the other side of not having little girls anymore.
My 20 year old is still playing dress up and it is ferociously expensive.
GreekChorusGirl |
05.24.08 - 3:06 pm | #
Just driving by to say what a great tool. Thanks. I see now why I've had such a difficult adjustment here. I went from a walkscore of 92 in lovely downtown Noho to a 12 at my former address here. I'm sure my current one is even worse but it's so new it doesn't register as an address yet. The only selling point of the new place is the pool on premises. And the gym.
Libby |
05.24.08 - 3:08 pm | #
You don't speak for Black Americans. This community certainly doesn't. Y'alls demographic is caucasoid, overeducated, and post-American.
Toby Petzold | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 2:45 pm | #
You don't speak for humans, even if they hired you. Your demographic is fat, lazy, stupid, gullible, treasonous troll. Y'all.
ronjazz |
05.24.08 - 3:09 pm | #
You don't speak for Black Americans. This community certainly doesn't. Y'alls demographic is caucasoid, overeducated, and post-American.
Toby Petzold |
HOW can anyone be OVEREDUCATED???
And is "post-American" another word Rush,Hannity or O'Reilly made up?
WHY do you even come here? Do you need attention THAT badly????
Terry C - Dangerous Liberal |
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05.24.08 - 3:10 pm | #
I remember standing behind a crazy-looking bum in the check-out line at the grocery store late one night and all he had was a bottle of lotion and a Barbie doll coloring book.
And that bum's name was Thersites.
Toby Petzold |
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05.24.08 - 3:11 pm | #
And that bum's name was Thersites.
I've met Thers, jack dick.
billy b |
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05.24.08 - 3:13 pm | #
But it's a stone fact that Dems are more likely to commit fraud because of their inherently unstructured moral value system.
Toby Petzold | Homepage | 05.24.08 - 2:49 pm | #
actually, you stupid fat fuck, it's a stone fact that Republicans commit far more fraud, and are caught in far more instances, because of their inherently structured immoral system. republican administrations lead they way in indictments and convictions for fraud, theft, perjury, obstruction of justice and vote-tampering, far oustripping Democrats. too bad your stone facts are simply your stoned opinions, fatso.
ronjazz |
05.24.08 - 3:13 pm | #
Good one ronjazz.
Tubby's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
billy b |
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05.24.08 - 3:16 pm | #
The crazy suggestions Olberman made in his speech went beyond lunacy, and in my opinion, incited violence. We all know there are a lot of unstable people out there who don't need any seeds planted in their heads. It is VERY inappropriate for a public figure with a national audience to be so reckless and dangerous with his words. The man needs to be fired
Bugs | 05.24.08 - 2:49 pm | #
funny thing, bugsass, no violence. were you chosen to be sent out from the RNC troll roles as the very stupid one today? or are you and toby fighting for that title?
ronjazz |
05.24.08 - 3:18 pm | #
Walk score: 91.
Location: Los Angeles (Los Feliz to be more specific).
These kinds of scores, which equal my former SF and NYC neighborhoods, are tucked all over LA.
djangone |
05.24.08 - 3:53 pm | #
OMG I have a 68. I must buy three Hummers and a speedboat. Or I can just get my groceries online like I normally do.
Kezaro |
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05.24.08 - 3:56 pm | #
Walk score: 15, and that's high because according to them my nearest grocery store is an independent Herbalife distributor accessible only if I walk across Interstate 91.
edub |
05.24.08 - 4:40 pm | #
So, Venice must have a Walkscore of a gazillion. No wonder the natives love it so.
Pompano Pete |
05.24.08 - 5:16 pm | #
Walk Score: 92 out of 100
Not bad, eh? And with one of those destinations being the DC metro, and my job less than three blocks from the station at the other end, voila! I am in walker's heaven.
My walking score is a 6. Sigh. And that's probably overly generous, given that most of the businesses listed are at the bottom of an impossibly steep hill. Oh, and the nearest "bar" listed is a Jamba Juice. Sigh again.
Shane in Utah |
05.25.08 - 12:54 pm | #
Shane in Utah,
Don't feel so bad. My childhood home in rural Pennsylvania had a walk score of 8.
Now I live in Washington DC and have a walk score of 94.
Just a slight difference.
Beobachter |
05.25.08 - 2:52 pm | #
Interesting, but...
Typing in my address, I found a bookstore that closed years ago; it's now a bank. A kids' toy store is listed under "clothing."
Nice concept, but a tad inaccurate.
Glen |
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