Electroshock.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 5:56 pm | #
When fans attack!
R. Manhammer |
04.12.08 - 5:56 pm | #
It was bitter about the elctrons.
catalexis the Communist |
04.12.08 - 5:56 pm | #
Third?
Was there much blood or anything?
Prior Aelred |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 5:56 pm | #
keep it in the fridge and it will be ok.
Cole DBiers |
04.12.08 - 5:57 pm | #
Is res ipsa around?
Prior Aelred |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 5:57 pm | #
And this is a metaphor for what?
Raoul Paste |
04.12.08 - 5:58 pm | #
It sensed a urban transportation post brewing.
Just Another Zero |
04.12.08 - 5:59 pm | #
fascinating
can we just let benny netanyahu be the next secretary of defense?
is there anything in the constitution that would prevent that?
Syd B |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 5:59 pm | #
I used laptops of friends when I was away -- very noisy & hot -- I prefer the traditional desktop model
Prior Aelred |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 5:59 pm | #
I want my neural jack, Jack! I want to ride the net with my own pet spider tank. Hey, we finally got the freakin TV on the wall they've been promising us for forty years, it could happen!
catalexis the Communist |
04.12.08 - 6:02 pm | #
It seems one of the cooling fans on my laptop has killed itself.
Suicide is a sin against god.
Richard |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:03 pm | #
Seems someone would be making a computer that runs cooler by now... the heat is wasted energy.
bloggus |
04.12.08 - 6:03 pm | #
"I used a fan to dry the puss coming out of my prince albert piercing"-David Broder
jr |
04.12.08 - 6:04 pm | #
The Mac is better, they say.
Prior Aelred |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:04 pm | #
Is Rorschach here? Apparently, Johnny Depp's in Oshkosh today!
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:04 pm | #
Is Rorschach here? Apparently, Johnny Depp's in Oshkosh today!
I sent K&Y's link to the Russian Expobank cheesecake executive calendar to an old friend of mine from law school (Russian-born, Mass-educated).
His response:
"Russia is a post-feminist utopia/wasteland."
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 6:05 pm | #
It was bitter about the elctrons.
catalexis the Communist | 04.12.08 - 5:56 pm | #
Pour some orange juice on it.
rootless-e |
04.12.08 - 6:05 pm | #
Oshkosh? B'gosh!
Pointer Brand.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 6:05 pm | #
Prior Aelred forsakes his vow of non-violence and looses the brands of war!
.
GMT, Democrat Party |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:06 pm | #
Seems someone would be making a computer that runs cooler by now... the heat is wasted energy.
They're sticking more and more transistors into less and less space. They run hotter as a consequence. One of the drawbacks of having more computing power.
Richard |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:06 pm | #
There are several computers the fundamental designs of which are totally rethought for hardware-light Linux apps (Windows can't even wake up without a pound of gear). We were considering buying one of this type before we got our Compaq. We will find the link in a bit, but note that several of the smaller kind do not have fans because they do not need them.
the goddamn k&y |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:07 pm | #
Evidently it needs a tax break.
baba durag |
04.12.08 - 6:07 pm | #
Is res ipsa around?
Prior Aelred
I think all the uber-NYish types are on a lark of some sort together.
Bastards.
V for Virginia, just hunky dor |
04.12.08 - 6:07 pm | #
However, the new 45nm process makes a core that uses less total power. But they add more cores so the total power consumption goes up. Soon you will all be using Hummer Laptops.
catalexis the Communist |
04.12.08 - 6:08 pm | #
Bastards
Just like 'em, ain't it?
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 6:08 pm | #
You can upgrade from the coal-burning fans.
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 6:08 pm | #
I think Hillary had a hand in it.
Gomez |
04.12.08 - 6:08 pm | #
I think all the uber-NYish types are on a lark of some sort together.
Bastards.
V for Virginia, just hunky dor
Well, the liberal communist Homosexual agenda isn't going to spread those pods all by itself, ya know...
racymind |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:08 pm | #
Jim Nantz needs to blow his nose.
sdg |
04.12.08 - 6:08 pm | #
TAX CUTS!!!
TAX FUCKING CUTS!!
CUTTING FUCKING TAXES!!!
FUCK TAXES, CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT !!!
There, I just solved everything.
.
GMT, Democrat Party |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:09 pm | #
Just like 'em, ain't it?
Barndog, not currently fishing
All havin' fun and shit, most exciting city on Earth (maybe); what ya gonna do?
V for Virginia, just hunky dor |
04.12.08 - 6:09 pm | #
I think Hillary had a hand in it.
Gomez
Nah.
It's because Obama turned down coffee in favor of orange juice.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:09 pm | #
My ball striking has been very good today.
Gomez |
04.12.08 - 6:09 pm | #
Terry,
From below, I know but one should be careful who they align themselves with.
This rift has gone on long enough now. Reality has to impinge on the Clintons at some point, doesn't it?
This "gaffe" is not a mistake that will magically clear the way for Hillary to reclaim the lead. It is not really a gaffe except in her mind and she is grasping at straws now.
I really do not understand their unwillingness to surrender to reality.
DWD |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:09 pm | #
I'm lovin' having the Masters leaderboard and video feed and this comments thread open at the same time, but my poor old iLamp is groaning like a fat old bastard at the gym for the first time in ten years.
Five year old computer... that's like seventy-five in human years?
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 6:10 pm | #
a shot and a bear will fix the laptop fan.
at least it works for me.
peterboy |
04.12.08 - 6:10 pm | #
FUCK TAXES, CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT !!!
There, I just solved everything.
.
GMT, Democrat Party
PS Bomb Iran.
Luv, McCheney
V for Virginia, just hunky dor |
04.12.08 - 6:10 pm | #
can we just let benny netanyahu be the next secretary of defense?
I'm sure Blackwater would be happy to put him on staff.
theodoric of athens |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:10 pm | #
I want to be a coastal elite! I'm stuck in the red state heartland with child raping family values folks all around me!
catalexis the Communist |
04.12.08 - 6:11 pm | #
charlie black and mark penn work for the same corporate conglomerate.
peterboy |
04.12.08 - 6:11 pm | #
a shot and a bear will fix the laptop fan.
at least it works for me.
peterboy
-----------------------
a bear????? what exactly does the bear do????
foolme1ns |
04.12.08 - 6:11 pm | #
TAX FUCKING CUTS!!
CUTTING FUCKING TAXES!!!
FUCK TAXES, CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT !!!
There, I just solved everything.
Wow, my acne is gone!
SteveNS |
04.12.08 - 6:11 pm | #
I really do not understand their unwillingness to surrender to reality.
DWD
People have the right to support who they choose.
Doesn't mean they agree with some jerkoff troll who comes here looking for attention because he's a racist shit whose wife is sick of him.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:11 pm | #
Ouch...
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news...ov=ap&
type=lgns
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP)—Philadelphia Flyers left wing Patrick Thoresen was released from the hospital Saturday after tests revealed no serious injury from a shot that hit him in the groin.
Thoresen lay writhing in pain after blocking Mike Green’s shot in the third period Friday night of a 5-4 loss to the Washington Capitals. The 24-year-old forward was taken to Washington Hospital Center, where he underwent two ultrasound tests.
“My groin area is sore and swollen,” Thoresen said in comments released by the team. “I can’t really walk properly right now. It hurts.”
Thoresen rested at the team hotel while the Flyers practiced Saturday.
“Everything checked out OK. They were checking to see if there was a rupture. There was none,” general manager Paul Holmgren said.
Holmgren said he wouldn’t be surprised if Thoresen played in Game 2 on Sunday.
Richard |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:11 pm | #
Well, you buy a shot for the bear too.
It likes the sweeter stuff.
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 6:12 pm | #
Evidently it needs a tax break.
baba durag
I took a tax break earlier today. Now I'm writing checks.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 6:12 pm | #
a bear????? what exactly does the bear do????
foolme1ns
Shit in the woods?
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:12 pm | #
Five year old computer... that's like seventy-five in human years?
SteveLG
Wow... ancient. I need a new one at least every two. I like lots of things open at once.
racymind |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:12 pm | #
There, I just solved everything.
Wow, my acne is gone!
SteveNS
Holy shit, I'm thin and 25!
Thanks, republicans!
V for Virginia, just hunky dor |
04.12.08 - 6:12 pm | #
I think all the uber-NYish types are on a lark of some sort together.
Hmmm...A Prairie Home Companion is at Town Hall tonight.
Mark Penn — whose firm, Burson-Marsteller, owns Mr. Black’s firm — stepped aside last week as chief strategist for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign.
Mr. Black resigned from his firm, BKSH, the previous week.
Mr. Black has worked for some o0f the city’s most controversial clients (Jonas Savimbi, Philip Morris, Blackwater) and with the baddest boys of Republican politics (he cut his teeth on Jesse Helms’s campaigns, and was a mentor to Lee Atwater).
Five year old computer... that's like seventy-five in human years?
SteveLG
Wow... ancient. I need a new one at least every two. I like lots of things open at once.
racymind
I ride 'em pretty hard, too. Plus it really doesn't help when you periodically dump a cocktail into the keyboard, I've found.
YMMV.
V for Virginia, just hunky dor |
04.12.08 - 6:13 pm | #
Another application for the Bag of Frozen Peas. Also great for sprains and burns.
Gromit |
04.12.08 - 6:13 pm | #
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP)—Philadelphia Flyers left wing Patrick Thoresen was released from the hospital Saturday after tests revealed no serious injury from a shot that hit him in the groin.
Depends what you mean by "serious," I suppose.
Actually, Ovechkin scored the winning goal for the Caps while Thoresen was lying on the ice.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 6:13 pm | #
I got a 7 year old Vaio without one sign of sickness.
sdg |
04.12.08 - 6:14 pm | #
A Prairie Home Companion is at Town Hall tonight.
That was last week, at least on the radio in my car.
theodoric of athens |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:14 pm | #
"Petrol prices have surged to more than $2 a litre in some places, and filling a 50-litre tank may cost over $100."
the goddamn k&y |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:14 pm | #
Wow... ancient. I need a new one at least every two. I like lots of things open at once.
racymind
I also have a bottle of wine open... didn't even mention that.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 6:15 pm | #
I ride 'em pretty hard, too. Plus it really doesn't help when you periodically dump a cocktail into the keyboard, I've found.
YMMV.
V for Virginia, just hunky dor
I am jonesing for a 24" monitor. This 19" seems pathetic now. Three years ago it seemed like a football field.
racymind |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:15 pm | #
I have a 7 year-old Dell. The monitor died a few months ago, but I've never had any problems with the computer itself.
Richard |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:16 pm | #
That was last week, at least on the radio in my car.
Two week stint, I think.
Regardless, I think that he tapes his shows on Fridays...at least when he here at home.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:16 pm | #
Doesn't mean they agree with some jerkoff troll who comes here looking for attention because he's a racist shit whose wife is sick of him.
Terry C, Obama 08
I got a 7 year old Vaio without one sign of sickness.
sdg
Nothing "sick" about the iLamp... that's why I can't bring myself to replace it.
But with several streaming goodies (especially the video feed from the Masters) open at the same time it has a hard time keeping up.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 6:17 pm | #
Macs are for unserious people.
Gomez |
04.12.08 - 6:17 pm | #
I am jonesing for a 24" monitor. This 19" seems pathetic now. Three years ago it seemed like a football field.
racymind
I coughed up for the 26" Apple Cinema Display. Worth. Every. Penny.
R. Manhammer |
04.12.08 - 6:17 pm | #
as I said earlier today, I fried my keybord on the laptop with some of feral's fine wine.
need to get a new one and install.
that will be an adventure for IT-nit-for-dad such as myself.
peterboy |
04.12.08 - 6:17 pm | #
Have I told you today that I love you?
Awww, thanks sweetie. It's just like, uhhhh, two weeks ago. Except I'm sober for the moment.
And I don't come cheap.
theodoric of athens |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:18 pm | #
I am jonesing for a 24" monitor. This 19" seems pathetic now. Three years ago it seemed like a football field.
racymind |
my 12-inch Mac had some sort of power issue THAT I SWEAR WAS NOT MY FAULT, and while Mr. V dealt with that I was using my original 14" one (she of the unfortunate cocktail incident, as I recall on election day 2006).
That frickin' think was like a Mack truck. HUGE. I'm so glad to have the petite flower back in service!
V for Virginia, drinks for .go |
04.12.08 - 6:18 pm | #
Lightning in Boston, time to throw the tarp on and let the grounds crew slide around for our enjoyment.
They've gotta put pillows in their shirts for the full effect.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:19 pm | #
I'm thinking about getting a laptop stand with built-in cooling fans, since I never disconnect it and roam around the house with it anyway.
SteveNS |
04.12.08 - 6:19 pm | #
"Purty!
Teh kittehs AND teh posies!"
thank you...hopefully buckeye is around...always asking for cat pics!
jdw |
04.12.08 - 6:19 pm | #
That frickin' think was like a Mack truck. HUGE. I'm so glad to have the petite flower back in service!
V for Virginia, drinks for .go
I like smaller laptops. I have a 14.1" on my lappie, and that was the largest I even considered.
racymind |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:22 pm | #
The "wintry mix" is no more, people.
For you, maybe.
Oh well, great weather for the polar bears!
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.12.08 - 6:22 pm | #
These rookies are choking already.
Gomez |
04.12.08 - 6:22 pm | #
Who was the guy on the Orioles who used to do that?
Gromit
Rick Dempsey.
Someone kill me for knowing that.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 6:22 pm | #
A few months back my PC was making god awful noises and suddenly shutting itself down for no apparent reason. Microsoft kept sending me conflicting crash reports. So I convinced myself I needed a new hard drive. As I took the case off to install the new hard drive I noticed that the fan was periodically grinding to a halt and shutting down the whole thing. So now I have a $20 and an extra big honking hard drive.
Lumpenprolitariot |
04.12.08 - 6:22 pm | #
I would like to briefly note that no one has commented on what heinous crimes atrios must have committed upon his laptop to drive it suicidal.
theodoric of athens |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:22 pm | #
In the Boston Phoenix's list of America's 100 Unsexiest Men, the article described Mike Huckabee as a dead ringer for Gromit's human pal.
He is such a wiener. But he pays the rent.
Gromit |
04.12.08 - 6:22 pm | #
Drudge reports, “Tough Job Market: Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales has been unable to interest law firms in adding his name to their roster…developing…” TNR’s Isaac Chotiner quips, “Riiight–it’s the tough job market.”
1Watt, Hermit |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:23 pm | #
Someone kill me for knowing that.
SteveLG
(puts steve into ilk suit)
its ilk season!!
HULK |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:23 pm | #
Seems someone would be making a computer that runs cooler by now... the heat is wasted energy.
bloggus
They have--the computing power of your 25-pound, 500-watt laptop from 1990 is now happily and coolly humming away in your cell phone and your iPod.
Computers would run a lot cooler if the damn consumers didn't keep insisting that they run faster.
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 6:23 pm | #
I'd do it after the earthquake that's coming that may kill all of you.
Gomez |
04.12.08 - 6:23 pm | #
Matt Taibbi used to write for the Exile. Good stuff.
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 6:23 pm | #
jdw+theme from Top Cat = die.die.die.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go |
04.12.08 - 6:23 pm | #
I think Mike Huckabee's tres sexy. I love me some former fat, long-in-the-tooth, long-in-the-forehaid men.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.12.08 - 6:24 pm | #
I would like to briefly note that no one has commented on what heinous crimes atrios must have committed upon his laptop to drive it suicidal.
theodoric of athens
I can't say with any certainty that it's atrios's fault. There are a lot of fans out there which aren't well balanced, and for reasons having nothing to do with their employer du jour, choose to end it all.
Frankly, I think there may be a possibility here that atrios may be able to use do counselling. After all, he's just a yung'un, and they are prone to magical thinking.
R. Manhammer |
04.12.08 - 6:24 pm | #
And with the thought that I ♥ Huckabee, I'm really going.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.12.08 - 6:25 pm | #
jdw, you have some loud-ass cats.
Willendorf Venus |
04.12.08 - 6:25 pm | #
Computers would run a lot cooler if the damn consumers didn't keep insisting that they run faster.
I like smaller laptops. I have a 14.1" on my lappie, and that was the largest I even considered.
racymind
The widescreen (16:9) ones are nice because they're shorter vertically. As far as I'm concerned, if it's too wide for a coach-class seat and too tall to be used when dickhead in the row ahead of you reclines, it ain't a laptop.
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 6:26 pm | #
jdw:
Is Bamboozle a blue-cream?
Love her markings.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:26 pm | #
Computers would run a lot cooler if the damn consumers didn't keep insisting that they run faster.
Dr. Wu
Myself, I'm perfectly happy for my computer to run at the same speed. I just want it to be able to run more stuff at the same time at the same speed as before.
Of course, I'm probably a minority or something.
R. Manhammer |
04.12.08 - 6:27 pm | #
Ben Stein
Apparently Darwin caused the Holocaust.
aki |
04.12.08 - 6:27 pm | #
Sure, Macs break -- although less often, statistically -- but again I fail to see why a PC user wouldn't want the option to run both operating systems. Why be so proud as to not buy the Mac? Is it really the $50 price difference?
All sorts of PC Magazine authorities have said that Macs are now the best-built PCs.
Heroin |
04.12.08 - 6:28 pm | #
Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales has been unable to interest law firms in adding his name to their roster
Gee, I wonder why.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:28 pm | #
They need to call a Hot Line.
SteveLG
I kick myself for not thinking of that.
R. Manhammer |
04.12.08 - 6:28 pm | #
Hey John Yoo. Alberto's calling to you.
baba durag |
04.12.08 - 6:29 pm | #
Daughter in college has a Toshiba satellite that has a flaw where the heat sink fills up with dust and overheats shutting the machine down. Couple years ago found instructions on the web to take the thing apart - down to the mama board. Really very easy. So I took it apart - cleaned the heat sink and put together again. Success.
This spring break same problem. I take apart, clean, put together again. Turn on and screech/boom it shuts off. I ask daughter, did you back everything up fore I started this. Oh I got a well deserved shit storm from her.
It all worked out - not sure if re-clipping the various parts in and out, or starting while holding F2 down did it. But for a couple hours I had ruined her life - term papers and all.
So back up before you get that new fan!
Mart |
04.12.08 - 6:29 pm | #
and i thought ben stein was intelligent. obviously not.
HULK
as my late father would say about people like Ben Stein:
The bastard would sell his asshole and shit out his ribs if that would bring him a tidy enough profit.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:29 pm | #
I've got a 15.4 for home use (such as screwing around over at this place), and one at work that could only be considered a laptop if your lap was the size of an aircraft carrier.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
04.12.08 - 6:29 pm | #
The euro's strength against the dollar may explain a rise in the availability of cocaine in Europe and a decline in the US, a US anti-drugs official says.
trifecta |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:30 pm | #
Gonzales can start a work comp practice and do cheezy TV ads in the afternoon.
HULK |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:30 pm | #
I am going to make a steak sandwich with the thin sliced ribeye in my fridge.
yes, spaetzel is a regular, even made him a little house...but...but...he's outdoor only.
"Is Bamboozle a blue-cream?"
dunno. she's some form of mutant that found her way into our yard as a lost kitten. she's an oddball, very retiring. very few people outside of us have ever seen her. she hears a strange voice or a knock at the door and hightails it.
jdw |
04.12.08 - 6:30 pm | #
Was Cheney fishing with a naked woman?
Where do you put the hook on a naked woman?
Gomez |
04.12.08 - 6:30 pm | #
i have the dual core MAC....never learned how to switch to the windows side. I had a pc laptop for that.
seriously, though, I have not had a laptop I could use in coach if the pal in front of me had her/his seat back.
peterboy |
04.12.08 - 6:30 pm | #
I don't mind Macs. I do mind the initial outlay of lotsa money.
But I've got an iPod Touch...
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:30 pm | #
Apparently Darwin caused the Holocaust.
Then Einstein caused Hiroshima.
cahuenga |
04.12.08 - 6:30 pm | #
I kick myself for not thinking of that.
R. Manhammer
[pours R. Manhammer a good healthy slurp of Pascal Maillard's Chorey les Beaune 2002]
It's just an elitist Chardonnay kind of day.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 6:30 pm | #
Snedeker just gave one a drink.
Gomez |
04.12.08 - 6:31 pm | #
I am going to make a steak sandwich with the thin sliced ribeye in my fridge.
BBL.
racymind
That's what I had for dinner.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:32 pm | #
one at work that could only be considered a laptop if your lap was the size of an aircraft carrier.
He probably wants equal time in schools for that bullshit too.
HULK |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:33 pm | #
Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S.
Congressional Critics Want More Assurances of Legality
The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea's legal authority. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...ml?
nav=hcmodule
These assholes ain't even shy about it any more.
Lumpenprolitariot |
04.12.08 - 6:33 pm | #
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists have found a cluster of spruces in the mountains in western Sweden which, at an age of 8,000 years, may be the world's oldest living trees.
The hardy Norway spruces were found perched high on a mountain side where they have remained safe from recent dangers such as logging, but exposed to the harsh weather conditions of the mountain range that separates Norway and Sweden.
Mike Huckabee does not understand this story.
trifecta |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:33 pm | #
IBM announced a water-cooled 5GHz server this week.
theodoric of athens
Thus allowing modern consumers to experience the long-lost joys of water-cooled mainframes: coolant leaks, pump failures, and all.
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 6:34 pm | #
Mike Huckabee does not understand this story.
trifecta
They were high enough on the mountain that the dinosaurs couldn't eat them.
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 6:35 pm | #
Maybe Ben Stein will do an all-male movie too.
Ferris Bueller Gets Off.
Starring Corporal Sanchez and Jeffy Lube Gannon as Bueller.
HULK |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:35 pm | #
Oh my goodness, Obama does it again!!!
Right after orange juice gate, he jumps right into angry middle class gate.
Will the man ever stop?
foolme1ns |
04.12.08 - 6:36 pm | #
Don't be bitter.
SteveLG
Merely envious of your elitist chardonnay.
R. Manhammer |
04.12.08 - 6:36 pm | #
Actually, Einstein had a hell of a lot more to do with Hiroshima than Darwin ever had with the Holocaust.
the goddamn k&y |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:36 pm | #
Y is a fan of Henri Poincaré. K won't let Y put a poster of Poincaré up because of a decorating faux pas it would create.
trifecta |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:39 pm | #
Some dude on the bus who brought up that same picture.
Because bananas mate with goldfish in the moonlight.
Hope this helps.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go |
04.12.08 - 6:40 pm | #
"Somebody let Obama kidnap so many states and delegates that he almost has an insurmountable lead over the Clinton campaign. - Mark Green
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.12.08 - 6:41 pm | #
Neither of us are familiar with Poincare.
the goddamn k&y
Y is. Y just doesn't want to show you up.
trifecta |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:41 pm | #
for some reason i prefer miniature golf. i think its the plastic dinosaur. you dont see plastic dinosaur hazards at augusta.
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 6:41 pm | #
Uncle B, yeah, they are. Just anxious since Monsieur flew out this morning to attend a funeral in Maine.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
04.12.08 - 6:44 pm | #
That goddamned windmill gets me so hot I can hardly putt.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go
I have no fucking idea what that's about but it cracked me up.
Hmmm...I've discovered that Terrence Trent D'Arby was just a stage name.
The moment I heard him, back in '87 or whenever I said "There's the next Prince."
Which tells you something about my grasp of popular music.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 6:44 pm | #
The boys are holding her back. And the worst part is, they’re her own boys.
No one could've foreseen that an establishment Democrat could be footshot by the exact same "retarded advisors" problem that plagued every previous campaign since Clinton.
"Just anxious since Monsieur flew out this morning to attend a funeral in Maine."
you know the number dearie ;|)
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
04.12.08 - 6:45 pm | #
maybe they could keep the course the same, but then convert the greens into miniature golf holes. i think this would increase the audience, cause people could relate. who has not faced their own windmill, in the golf course of their life?
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 6:45 pm | #
Teh laptop resists the forthcoming move.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
04.12.08 - 6:45 pm | #
Mo Dowd is Clenis-hating again
Poor dear - she's SO bitter.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:45 pm | #
Late to the thread, but I read that and thought fans, as a "fan" of this blog. Had not idea what the cooling was about.
mer |
04.12.08 - 6:45 pm | #
I've been busy and just now heard CNN talker going on and on about Obama's "gaffe". Sheesh, what's wrong with those people.
Bitter? frustrated?
Hell yes. Neither guns nor religion do anything for me, though, I require other remedies.
GWPDA: did you see our pretty flowers linked upthread?
jdw |
04.12.08 - 6:47 pm | #
From Rich:
The simple explanation for why we shun the war is that it has gone so badly. But another answer was provided in the hearings by Senator George Voinovich of Ohio, one of the growing number of Republican lawmakers who no longer bothers to hide his exasperation. He put his finger on the collective sense of shame (not to be confused with collective guilt) that has attended America’s Iraq project. “The truth of the matter,” Mr. Voinovich said, is that “we haven’t sacrificed one darn bit in this war, not one. Never been asked to pay for a dime, except for the people that we lost.”
Amen, Senator. Why I haven't heard Obama or Clinton saying this is a mystery to me. Reasonable people may disagree on the decision to go to war, but only a complete moron would defend putting the war on the Bank of China credit card. Bush's rich buddies haven't "sacrificed" a goddamn thing, and quite a few of them are lining their pockets with war profits. The media, with their news blackout on anything that could be considered a class-war issue, sure as hell aren't going to say anything. It's time for the Democrats to step up and do so.
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 6:47 pm | #
Who could fail to love a concept album titled "Heaven's Movie"?
the goddamn k&y |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:47 pm | #
goddamit.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Well, I think you're the coolest.
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.12.08 - 6:47 pm | #
I think one should be able to easily bite through a steak sandwich without worrying about pulling the entire steak out after each bite. Nice 'n' tender.
I have achieved this.
racymind |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:48 pm | #
there is almost no connection between the standard war narratives that they try to fit iraq into, and reality.
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 6:48 pm | #
Uncle Blodge claims to be so uncool that he must be totally cool.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere |
04.12.08 - 6:48 pm | #
Late to the thread, but I read that and thought fans, as a "fan" of this blog. Had no idea what the cooling was about.
mer
You are so adorable.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 6:48 pm | #
I've been busy and just now heard CNN talker going on and on about Obama's "gaffe". Sheesh, what's wrong with those people.
With the MSM whores, telling the God's honest truth in a "gaffe".
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:48 pm | #
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - 87F and 8% humidity! EIGHT PER CENT.!
The rumour mill sez that Mo Dowd is bitter because Arianna didn't set her up with Larry David like she asked her to.
P O'Neill |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:49 pm | #
IS a "gaffe" - sorry.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:49 pm | #
Why I haven't heard Obama or Clinton saying this is a mystery to me.
I've been busy and just now heard CNN talker going on and on about Obama's "gaffe". Sheesh, what's wrong with those people.
I've got news for the bubble-headed bimbos at CNN: I'm frustrated, I'm bitter, I'm goddamn pissed off, I'm giving Obama plenty of money, and I'm voting for him. And since around 1995, when it became a cross between Fox News and Entertainment Tonight, I haven't watched your piece of shit network. Spin that, motherfuckers.
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 6:49 pm | #
"It seems one of the cooling fans on my laptop has killed itself."
Well, now that you have had one or two days of equity building, it's time to invest in one of these.
He made the same speech twice, more or less right?
How is that a "gaffe."
It was a sermon, a sermom to all the bitter people, Obama brings sweet sweet economics for all who thirst.
annie |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:51 pm | #
Immelman is very good. He's going to be tough for Tiger to catch. Started out rough today but pulled it together and has a two shot lead, five ahead of Tiger.
I don't look for him to give it away.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 6:51 pm | #
i hate to ask what obamas gaffe is. is it the terrible faux paus of asking for orange juice, or his unpatriotic bowling style? or could it be some fresh hell?
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 6:51 pm | #
you'll never hear the end of it from the hillbots for calling her hitlery.
actually i have no fashion sense, like no weird movies or music, and have had my hair cut professionally once since 1987.
On the other hand I have eaten and liked Ethiopian food...
And i can say "Jesus Christ and a fucking piece of fornicating chickenshit" in context.
so I guess it all balances out
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
04.12.08 - 6:52 pm | #
Chokelson just birdied.
Gomez
why are the birds louder just before a tee shot?
1Watt, Hermit |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:52 pm | #
The moment I heard him, back in '87 or whenever I said "There's the next Prince."
Which tells you something about my grasp of popular music.
SteveLG
I can't tell you how reassuring this is, because I heard whatever single of his was playing on teh raddio machine, and ran out and bought the CD toot-sweet. And then . . . meh.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go |
04.12.08 - 6:52 pm | #
Zapette and I are currently digging Bon Iver.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:52 pm | #
He made the same speech twice, more or less right?
Some people are so dense they need to be told things more than once.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:52 pm | #
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - 87F and 8% humidity! EIGHT PER CENT.!
Damn paint dries on the brush.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
GWPDA, even though we're friends, I have to tell you that this borders on sadism for those of us in Chicago, Detroit and points North.
DDerbes, writin' demon |
04.12.08 - 6:53 pm | #
Sally Quinn on CNN discussing faith and politics.
Karatist Preacher |
04.12.08 - 6:53 pm | #
"Uncle Blodge claims to be so uncool that he must be totally cool."
That really wasn't that cool to say that, so your uncool is then cool.
I'm bitter as hell that the US is guilty of torture, of war crimes, of criminal negligence (NOLA), etc., and there seems not to be one damn thing any of us citizens can do to change the stupid course.
helena handbasket |
04.12.08 - 6:53 pm | #
i hate to ask what obamas gaffe is. is it the terrible faux paus of asking for orange juice, or his unpatriotic bowling style? or could it be some fresh hell?
pretzelattack
Obama dared call heartland voters bitter, for clutching their guns and voting Repug. Never mind the fact that it's true..
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.12.08 - 6:53 pm | #
Immelman is very good.
Gary Player, who shot 78 yesterday, said Immelman has the closest thing to Ben Hogan's swing he's seen.
That's a good thing.
billy b |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:53 pm | #
Teh laptop resists the forthcoming move.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian | 04.12.08 - 6:45 pm
This pic from Yahk confuses me, there is blue sky.
i hate to ask what obamas gaffe is. is it the terrible faux paus of asking for orange juice, or his unpatriotic bowling style? or could it be some fresh hell?
pretzelattack
Telling the truth about people who cling to ideas that have kept them poor.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:54 pm | #
Uncle Blodge claims to be so uncool that he must be totally cool.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
Uncle Blodge is magically babe-alicious. Plus he's all like cool and shit.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go |
04.12.08 - 6:54 pm | #
i hate to ask what obamas gaffe is. is it the terrible faux paus of asking for orange juice, or his unpatriotic bowling style? or could it be some fresh hell?
pretzelattack
He had the gall to suggest that blue-collar voters in Pennsylvania, who have lost their jobs, their homes, and their health care, might be a wee bit pissed off about it. To Hillary, that's "condescending." To the media, it fails to show sufficient obeisance to their corporate overlords, and is therefore uppity-negro talk.
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 6:54 pm | #
I can't tell you how reassuring this is, because I heard whatever single of his was playing on teh raddio machine, and ran out and bought the CD toot-sweet.
"Wishing Well" is a good song and holds up well to this day.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 6:54 pm | #
why are the birds louder just before a tee shot?
1Watt, Hermit
They're prerecorded. The sound guy is working his magic.
bill |
04.12.08 - 6:54 pm | #
hmm never heard of immelman. when does the basketball start?
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 6:54 pm | #
GWPDA, even though we're friends, I have to tell you that this borders
on sadism for those of us in Chicago, Detroit and points North.
Nah - this is my ROI for having been born in Calgary. I've done my time.
ah, he told the truth. i was afraid it was something like that.
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 6:55 pm | #
Sally Quinn on CNN discussing faith and politics.
Karatist Preacher
Thanks for the warning.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 6:55 pm | #
never heard of immelman
German WW1 ace who originated the Immelmann Turn.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash |
04.12.08 - 6:55 pm | #
“we haven’t sacrificed one darn bit in this war, not one. Never been asked to pay for a dime, except for the people that we lost.”
some day, some econ PhD candidate at some elite university will go back and calculate the real inflation rate over the last eight years, and demonstrate how wrong this is.
theodoric of athens |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:55 pm | #
Fee things are more relaxing than a golf nap
bill |
04.12.08 - 6:56 pm | #
There's a guy in the gallery wearing sandals.
leaf |
04.12.08 - 6:56 pm | #
The MSM is playing it as Obama's gaffe.
The rest of the public recognizes it for what it is: telling the truth.
Anyone who isn't bitter hasn't been paying attention, or earns more than a million a year.
(h/t to Sinfonian, I think) There are two sorts of Republican voters: multimillionaires, and suckers.
DDerbes, writin' demon |
04.12.08 - 6:56 pm | #
German WW1 ace who originated the Immelmann Turn.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash | 04.12.08 - 6:55 pm | #
ace is a golf term right?
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 6:56 pm | #
Shorter.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go |
04.12.08 - 6:56 pm | #
People who are too stupid to understand that Obama's insults were really parables are upset at being dissed.
He deeply regrets offending the stupid people, but as it wasn't his intent, they need to shut up now and not be bitter over it.
annie |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:56 pm | #
And i can say "Jesus Christ and a fucking piece of fornicating chickenshit" in context.
so I guess it all balances out
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Yes. And that's what makes you Tres Kool.
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.12.08 - 6:57 pm | #
"Wishing Well" is a good song and holds up well to this day.
SteveLG |
watching the worlds deadliest catch marathon. I think every fan o the show has a favorite boat. I like the cornelia marie. they're a hoot + 1/2
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
04.12.08 - 6:57 pm | #
From WT's Raw Story link:
The White House has scheduled a dinner next week in honor of Pope Benedict XVI's first visit to the United States, but one guest will be conspicuously absent from the proceedings: the pope himself.
some day, some econ PhD candidate at some elite university will go back and calculate the real inflation rate over the last eight years, and demonstrate how wrong this is.
theodoric of athens
Kevin Phillips has an article in the new Harpers about bogus economic statistics. I'd tell you what it says, but two paragraphs are enough to put me to sleep every night.
And it's the same two paragraphs, I think.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 6:58 pm | #
They're prerecorded. The sound guy is working his magic.
bill
I knew they were recorded, just can't understand why they're so much louder on the tee shots.
1Watt, Hermit |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:58 pm | #
Nah - this is my ROI for having been born in Calgary. I've done my time.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian
OK. I was born and raised in the drowned city.
Lived five years, nearly, in Edinburgh. Cold and gray. Now 22 in Chicago.
So how long, 'xactly, do I have to endure 38 degree Aprils till I get to escape to someplace humane, hmmm?
I think I've paid my dues with respect to crappy weather...
DDerbes, writin' demon |
04.12.08 - 6:59 pm | #
To the media, it fails to show sufficient obeisance to their corporate overlords, and is therefore uppity-negro talk.
Dr. Wu |
BOW DOWN BEFORE EMPEROR MAVERICK MCCRAZY!!
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.12.08 - 6:59 pm | #
There are two sorts of Republican voters: multimillionaires, and suckers.
DDerbes, writin' demon
And the suckers refuse to see that the multi-millionaires are playing them.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 6:59 pm | #
It seems one of the cooling fans on my laptop has killed itself.
You can't find da Pope in da White House.
watertiger
Observes, "D00d, I'm just a former Nazi, this shit is wack."
V for Virginia, drinks for .go |
04.12.08 - 6:59 pm | #
How is telling the truth an "insult"?
You know how wingers are about reality.
They regard it as a personal attack.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash |
04.12.08 - 7:00 pm | #
irt the "bitter" gaffe: may I suggest that, true or not, it was not the best word choice.
abyssgazer, DraftKang |
04.12.08 - 7:00 pm | #
cant help comparing obama to michael jordon and tiger woods. is barry the jordon-woods of the political world.
jordon great on the stuff shots, woods great with the putts, but thats it. both are in the game for themselves, fuck everything else. this is how i see obama. great at speechifying, but not much there after that. worked with a lot of these types in the corporate world.
come across great in meetings and bullshitting, but not much else there. good at dazzling the rank and file workers, but that was it.
hilldick |
04.12.08 - 7:00 pm | #
I can't tell you how reassuring this is, because I heard whatever single of his was playing on teh raddio machine, and ran out and bought the CD toot-sweet.
"Wishing Well" is a good song and holds up well to this day.
SteveLG | 04.12.08 - 6:54 pm |
I still like If You All Get to Heaven.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins |
04.12.08 - 7:00 pm | #
Observes, "D00d, I'm just a former Nazi, this shit is wack."
It's unclear why the Pope won't be attending the dinner in his honor, but he is expected to touch on issues upon which he and President Bush disagree during the visit, especially the Iraq war.
During his visit to the United Nations a few days later, the Pope will address "the false notion that might makes right," according to a Vatican representative.
Some experts also predict the Pope would criticize the "culture of fear" in the United States.
I don't think Georgie Boy wants to hear that.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:01 pm | #
How is telling the truth an "insult"?
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Some folks can't handle the truth..Cue Jack....
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.12.08 - 7:01 pm | #
yeah i was just thinking that, isnt this the former hitler youth leader?
bush is working overtime on uniting people the world over. i wonder what percentage worldwide would like to see him frog marched into the hague?
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 7:01 pm | #
So Obama broke the golden rule and he stopped pretending that everything is rosy and everyone is happy and well off.
Damn that orange juice drinking non bowler. How dare he tell the truth.
foolme1ns |
04.12.08 - 7:01 pm | #
"You know how wingers are about reality.
They regard it as a personal attack."
facts. stupid things. they have a liberal bias. "we create our own reality"
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
04.12.08 - 7:01 pm | #
I bet that fan could go for a glass of motherfuckin orange juice
johm mccain |
04.12.08 - 7:02 pm | #
Get a Vornado Zippi for $20. Elevate your laptop slightly with 4 little blocks or whatever you can find. Position the Zippi behind the laptop, sending a stream of air under it, and you'll be better off than you'd be with any laptop fan.
tantalus |
04.12.08 - 7:02 pm | #
Sorry if this is a repeat:
You can't find da Pope in da White House.
BWAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
A Nazi won't break bread with a fascisti war criminal.
BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
billy b |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:02 pm | #
Those folks at that town meeting in Terre Haute yesterday didn't seem too offended.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 7:02 pm | #
"So Obama broke the golden rule and he stopped pretending that everything is rosy and everyone is happy and well off. |"
fuck - you mean this isn't the greatest country on earth??
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
04.12.08 - 7:02 pm | #
"Wishing Well" is a good song and holds up well to this day.
SteveLG
"Sign Your Name" remains a classic...
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.12.08 - 7:02 pm | #
i dont know much about tiger, but jordan was pretty much great at everything. i suspect tiger can do more than putt--isnt he a great driver as well?
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 7:02 pm | #
How is telling the truth an "insult"?
You know how wingers are about reality.
They regard it as a personal attack.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash
They doan like reality.
They prefer to make their own little dream world.
Pisses them off that the rest of us won't join them in those bubbles.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:03 pm | #
yes, yes, i know, macs never break.
Atrios
Yes, yes, we know this is sarcasm, but I'll say this: when they do break, if you bought AppleCare, they fix it pretty well.
I think, for what it's worth, that the fan repair is not difficult nor costly. You should see if there is a mom 'n pop shop that does this sort of thing in your neighborhood. We've got two, run by brilliant Chinese theoretical physicists (and no I am not making this up.)
DDerbes, writin' demon |
04.12.08 - 7:03 pm | #
watertiger banging her head on the desk
-
MisterX
OK, I watched that five times.
Send help.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go |
04.12.08 - 7:03 pm | #
OK -- back from supper -- I would tell you what it was, but I couldn't figure it out -- a sandwich made of something with some pickled pears on the side -- now I'm supposed to go off to recreation, but I would like to say that Obama keeps saying things that are true & being criticized for it & I like him more & more as a result (frustrated Edwardian -- I wish Elizabeth could have been president!)
Prior Aelred |
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04.12.08 - 7:04 pm | #
So Obama broke the golden rule and he stopped pretending that everything is rosy and everyone is happy and well off.
We were saying basically this last night. The Villagers have come to think that the rule that serfs not discuss their abject serfdom also applied to them. They truly have no idea how angry we are. If we were not already for Obama, we'd be for him just for this.
fuck - you mean this isn't the greatest country on earth??
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
"We're Number One!!"
Love it or leave it!
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.12.08 - 7:04 pm | #
"Send help."
a saint bernard is bringing you a keg of rum as we speak.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
04.12.08 - 7:04 pm | #
i dont know much about tiger, but jordan was pretty much great at everything. i suspect tiger can do more than putt--isnt he a great driver as well?
pretzelattack
He can do everything. Incredibly creative player, too.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 7:04 pm | #
Those folks at that town meeting in Terre Haute yesterday didn't seem too offended.
They can be easily dismissed as cult followers and therefore as insignificant.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash |
04.12.08 - 7:04 pm | #
"So Obama broke the golden rule and he stopped pretending that everything is rosy and everyone is happy and well off. |"
fuck - you mean this isn't the greatest country on earth??
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
How dare he say that the US of A isn't the goodest and the bestest place in the whole wide world!
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:04 pm | #
I would like to say that Obama keeps saying things that are true & being criticized for it & I like him more & more as a result (frustrated Edwardian -- I wish Elizabeth could have been president!)
Prior Aelred
Aw, jdw, them kitties are the cutest. I'd forgotten that ol' Sack of Hammers was yours, I thought he was one of the Daves around here. I have a special fondness for the sack o' hammers kind of not too bright kitties. My daughter's black & white Molly is of that ilk.
(I did caucus for Hillary)
racymind |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:06 pm | #
didnt mean to offend at suggesting michael couldnt play ball or tiger golf. great at what they do or did, just that they could have made a difference but were afraid of pissing of a few republicans. jordon admitted as much.
hilldick |
04.12.08 - 7:06 pm | #
They can be easily dismissed as cult followers and therefore as insignificant.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash
Just like his whole "following", which is about to put him in the White House.
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.12.08 - 7:06 pm | #
"I have a special fondness for the sack o' hammers kind of not too bright kitties."
he gets much brighter when it's time for his pill
jdw |
04.12.08 - 7:06 pm | #
"We've got two, run by brilliant Chinese theoretical physicists (and no I am not making this up.)"
Great, you go in for a battery replacement and come out with a laptop powered by the energy from a harnessed singularity.
Make sure it is a Mac though, A BSOD in that circumstance is not a good thing.
EkCenTriK |
04.12.08 - 7:06 pm | #
The Pope's people knew how to win a battle, run an occupation and draw operations to a close promptly to get on with the next conquest. The French and Dutch Resistance were jokes compared to the Mahdi Army.
the goddamn k&y |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:07 pm | #
What really puts a hair up the collective ass of the Powers That Be is that Obama's remarks verge on the long-dreaded spectre of Class Warfare.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash |
04.12.08 - 7:07 pm | #
Tiger is the driver. He's the guy that turned old par 5's into par 3's. Augusta was completely redesigned because of his abilities
bila |
04.12.08 - 7:07 pm | #
How dare he say that the US of A isn't the goodest and the bestest place in the whole wide world!
Terry C, Obama 08 | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 7:04 pm | #
the patriotism of people like toby
or jonah goldberg consists of loudly supporting their version of what america is. that's all they have to do. they dont have to sacrifice any personal comfort.
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 7:07 pm | #
"NOES! SHOW ME FLOWERS! WANT!"
CATS AND FLOWERS!!
jdw | 04.12.08 - 7:02 pm | #
They live!
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins |
04.12.08 - 7:07 pm | #
I love blue flowers. In teh desert, summer is always marked by flowers of yellow and red and orange - that's one quick way of telling whether they'll survive the season - but blue flowers are special and rare. The best I can seem to manage are salvia and occasionally some lobelia tucked into a shady spot. Not enough.
Last night in NYC I played mini golf while drinking 16 year old scotch.
Culture Of Truth |
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04.12.08 - 7:08 pm | #
A reasonable person above said that Obama's "bitter" was a poor word choice.
OK, maybe. Would you accept "angry" and "disappointed" and "unhappy" and "despairing" and "desperate"?
It remains to be seen how McBush leapfrogs over all that. I don't think it's possible.
DDerbes, writin' demon |
04.12.08 - 7:08 pm | #
Obama saying people are conservative because they are stupid, poor and bitter makes me thik he needs an IQ test.
People being upset with the government when the economy isn't good leads to voting on gay marriage as much as smoking pot leads to heroin.
He isn't some idiot on a message board spewing shit out his ass, he is a politician who needs to get people to vote for him, not alienate people he thinks are bitter.
annie |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:08 pm | #
Those folks at that town meeting in Terre Haute yesterday didn't seem too offended.
if you live in Terre Haute, it takes a lot to offend you.
theodoric of athens |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:09 pm | #
The MSM is playing it as Obama's gaffe.
Anyone who isn't bitter hasn't been paying attention, or earns more than a million a year.
DDerbes, writin' demon
Gee, that pretty much sums up the pundit class, doesn't it?
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 7:09 pm | #
CATS AND FLOWERS!!
Hey, those are some pussies!
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash |
04.12.08 - 7:09 pm | #
re: Macs -- Not trying to start a war or anything, but I'm as hard on a laptop as a person could be, and I'm not kidding. I drag these poor bastards everywhere, up and down stairs several times a day, on road trips, in airplanes, on the deck, in the car ... I'm more or less attached to them at the hip.
And in spite of [unfortunate cocktail-spilling incident redacted] I'm still using the one I got in 8/04 as a backup and the one we got when [u c-s i r] most of the time. If they break, you can fix them.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go |
04.12.08 - 7:09 pm | #
"Would you accept "angry" and "disappointed" and "unhappy" and "despairing" and "desperate"?"
I'd go with fucking pissed off.
actually despair is probably the closest, sad to say.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
04.12.08 - 7:09 pm | #
Obama saying people are conservative because they are stupid, poor and bitter makes me thik he needs an IQ test.
YEAH!!!! as i was taking pics and downloading and editing and posting and working my fingahs to the bone, i says to myself, "self, buckeye better show up to sees these kittahs or there will be major consternation."
jdw |
04.12.08 - 7:09 pm | #
What really puts a hair up the collective ass of the Powers That Be is that Obama's remarks verge on the long-dreaded spectre of Class Warfare.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash
You mean that the proles might become aware somebody has been waging war on them, and it's time to fight back?
And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
I suppose I'm in the minority--I think that is a somewhat unfair remark.
abyssgazer, DraftKang |
04.12.08 - 7:10 pm | #
Great, you go in for a battery replacement and come out with a laptop powered by the energy from a harnessed singularity.
EkCenTriK
They're theorists. No danger of singularities.
Oh, you might get a lecture on the generalized Ward-Takahashi identities, or the BRS transformations, but otherwise, you're safe.
DDerbes, writin' demon |
04.12.08 - 7:10 pm | #
Obama saying people are conservative because they are stupid, poor and bitter makes me think he needs an IQ test.
I'd say he just passed.
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 7:10 pm | #
Gee, that pretty much sums up the pundit class, doesn't it?
Dr. Wu
Obama saying people are conservative because they are stupid, poor and bitter makes me think he needs an IQ test.
I'd say he just passed.
Dr. Wu
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 7:11 pm | #
What really puts a hair up the collective ass of the Powers That Be is that Obama's remarks verge on the long-dreaded spectre of Class Warfare.
Sufferin'
What class is he supporting?
annie |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:11 pm | #
He isn't some idiot on a message board spewing shit out his ass
That's true, he isn't.
You are, though.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash |
04.12.08 - 7:11 pm | #
What really puts a hair up the collective ass of the Powers That Be is that Obama's remarks verge on the long-dreaded spectre of Class Warfare.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash
I have to wonder if Edwards pushed him in this direction.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go |
04.12.08 - 7:11 pm | #
I suppose I'm in the minority--I think that is a somewhat unfair remark.
Did you think that before the campaign when everyone at Eschaton said that exact same thought in not those words to explain Buchanan?
And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
I suppose I'm in the minority--I think that is a somewhat unfair remark.
abyssgazer, DraftKang
Cold water in the face might wake someone up. As with most of the gotcha games the mainstream media and Clinton Campaign plays with Obama, the people who support him won't care, and the people who are offended weren't voting for him anyway.
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.12.08 - 7:12 pm | #
the patriotism of people like toby
or jonah goldberg consists of loudly supporting their version of what america is. that's all they have to do. they dont have to sacrifice any personal comfort.
pretzelattack
I think it was Al Franken who compared these UBER-patriot types to four year olds and their mommies.
Mommy is perfect and has no faults whatsoever.
Adults see things differently.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
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04.12.08 - 7:13 pm | #
OK, maybe. Would you accept "angry" and "disappointed" and "unhappy" and "despairing" and "desperate"?
Yes, but I suppose it's a bit more than word choice. It's also the presumption that this group of people are monolithic in their beliefs.
abyssgazer, DraftKang |
04.12.08 - 7:13 pm | #
What class is he supporting?
What a stupid question,
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:13 pm | #
I suppose I'm in the minority--I think that is a somewhat unfair remark.
abyssgazer, DraftKang
What about it appears unfair to you? I'd like to know, because I've been assuming that the objections have been driven by the Liberal Media.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go |
04.12.08 - 7:14 pm | #
It remains to be seen how McBush leapfrogs over all that. I don't think it's possible.
there are millions of people in this country who think that anything short of "It's Morning in America" is treasonous.
the media loves the taste of McCain's cock. In order to get around that, Obama will have to find a way to bypass them and go straight to the people.
I would feel a lot better about our chances in this election if Rove were in jail.
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 7:14 pm | #
the people who support him won't care, and the people who are offended weren't voting for him anyway.
DuaneV
Well so long as it's ok to offend those who aren't voting for you.
Now shut up about Mccain. Kthnx.
annie |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:14 pm | #
"They live!"
YEAH!!!! as i was taking pics and downloading and editing and posting and working my fingahs to the bone, i says to myself, "self, buckeye better show up to sees these kittahs or there will be major consternation."
jdw | 04.12.08 - 7:09 pm
And if I hadn't, I would have whined: Where are they?!
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins |
04.12.08 - 7:14 pm | #
Well, let's see. The Bin Ladens didn't keep buying him Playskool Oil Kompany sets to break; his daddy doesn't have an estate in Maine; he doesn't own a compound in Paraguay; his grandfather wasn't a Nazi war profiteer; and his wife didn't describe the opportunity for Katrina refugees to sleep on cots in the Astrodome as "working out pretty well for them." Why don't you take a guess?
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 7:15 pm | #
I have to wonder if Edwards pushed him in this direction.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go | 04.12.08 - 7:11 pm | #
John Edwards would never make such a clumsy remark.
abyssgazer, DraftKang |
04.12.08 - 7:15 pm | #
Now shut up about Mccain. Kthnx.
Tell you what....YOU shut the fuck up.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:15 pm | #
The only people "offended" by that remark are people scared that anyone is being allowed to say such things in public.
the goddamn k&y |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:16 pm | #
As a PA resident, I'd just like to say that Obama got it absolutely right and with God by my side I'll blast the shit out of anyone who disagrees...
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MisterX |
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04.12.08 - 7:16 pm | #
It's a stupid question.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:16 pm | #
It's also the presumption that this group of people are monolithic in their beliefs.
That seems a bit tortuous to read that interpretation into Obama's statement.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash |
04.12.08 - 7:16 pm | #
Yes, but I suppose it's a bit more than word choice. It's also the presumption that this group of people are monolithic in their beliefs.
I just finished watching his response to all of this nonsense. He made an important point that lots of folks don't vote on economics because they think that nobody gives a shit that they're losing their jobs, or anything. So they vote on guns, gays, and god.
I just can't for the life of me see why that's so offensive or incorrect to some.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:16 pm | #
He isn't some idiot on a message board spewing shit out his ass
That's true, he isn't.
You are, though.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash
Butler has a real way with words, doesn't he?
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:17 pm | #
It's a stupid question.
Terry C, Obama 08
Turns out there is such a thing.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go |
04.12.08 - 7:17 pm | #
Hey all.
I'm bummed, my Preds got their asses kicked by the Red Wings.
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 7:18 pm | #
And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
I suppose I'm in the minority--I think that is a somewhat unfair remark.
abyssgazer, DraftKang
I don't think it's a nice remark, but I don't think it's unfair, or really innacurate.
And it's just not Pennsylvania, or rural Ohio, it could easily be applied to rural Serbia, or a large swath of this globe.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins |
04.12.08 - 7:18 pm | #
It's a stupid question.
Terry C, Obama 08
Turns out there is such a thing.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go
That's all that comes out of Butler.
Terry C, Obama 08 |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:18 pm | #
Yes, but I suppose it's a bit more than word choice. It's also the presumption that this group of people are monolithic in their beliefs.
abyssgazer, DraftKang
Hmmm... I see where you're coming from, but there is always at least some oversimplification in political speeches. How often have we all heard "People are tired of X" or "The American public wants Y". Clearly, not everyone is tired of X or wants Y, but the speaker typically assumes that those in the audience DO want Y or want rid of X, and as a psychological ploy, attempts to include all of the public in that group.
To be blunt, I think Obama described things very accurately. I was not offended in the slightest, and I'm mostly a Hillary person. I thought it was a damn good speech.
I also am willing to bet five bucks that this is a tempest in a teapot. Many people are beginning to recognize bullshit. A little late in the game, to be sure, but better late than never.
DDerbes, writin' demon |
04.12.08 - 7:18 pm | #
SB, I'm a Bruins fan, so we're consigned to less-than-mediocre status until the cruel ogre that owns the team finally disappears.
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 7:19 pm | #
A vote for Obama is a vote for Economics.
annie |
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04.12.08 - 7:19 pm | #
and his wife didn't describe the opportunity for Katrina refugees to sleep on cots in the Astrodome as "working out pretty well for them." Why don't you take a guess?
Dr. Wu | 04.12.08 - 7:15 pm | #
Ahem, I think it it was his battleax mom who mentioned that Katrina refugees in Houston were doing quite well.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins |
04.12.08 - 7:20 pm | #
What about it appears unfair to you? I'd like to know, because I've been assuming that the objections have been driven by the Liberal Media.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go | 04.12.08 - 7:14 pm | #
Coming from a long line of white trash, I happen to know that people have deeply held beliefs that are not necessarily the results of bitterness. The guns, the religion, etc.---these are part of the culture and are not always a negative.
I know where he was going and I don't exactly disagree, but I think it was a stupid thing to say.
abyssgazer, DraftKang |
04.12.08 - 7:20 pm | #
In America we aree not allowed to vote on economics.
the goddamn k&y |
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04.12.08 - 7:20 pm | #
Isn't the immigration issue economic in nature, at least mostly? The rest being how much everyone hates the criminal immigrants who bud in line and play their steroes too loud??
So, if the bitter people aren't voting on the economics of immigration what is it on?
Their antipathy of anyone different? You vote on antipathy?
annie |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:21 pm | #
Miss Anal Engine is boring me to tears...
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MisterX |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:22 pm | #
To be blunt, I think Obama described things very accurately. I was not offended in the slightest, and I'm mostly a Hillary person. I thought it was a damn good speech.
"And if I hadn't, I would have whined: Where are they?!"
:LOL:
the good news is that i got a new camera this week and have shot about 500 cat pics. the bad news is i dunno when the next time i'll be able to take time to post new ones.
jdw |
04.12.08 - 7:22 pm | #
I also am willing to bet five bucks that this is a tempest in a teapot.
DDerbes, writin' demon
My impression from the get-go, lo these many internet eons ago (Thursday?), was that this was an orange-juice deal.
Who in the fuck, hearing that Obama had an oj instead of coffee, would have drawn any conclusion about his "elitism" from it?
Ditto the remark about bitterness. It's not like the speech was published in full in newspapers throughout the land and the populace fired up the torches; Certain Serious People™ had Thoughts about it that resounded through the nation.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go |
04.12.08 - 7:23 pm | #
What am I saying, it's all you vote on.
annie |
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04.12.08 - 7:23 pm | #
Hello beautiful people,
I posted this earlier but it's too good to let slip away unnoticed. And check out the photos at the link (if you're not at work, that is!)
Giuseppe Verdi, one might think, is hard to mess up. But a theater in the eastern German city of Erfurt seems to be doing its best. In a re-interpretation of the opera "A Masked Ball," which opens on Saturday, director Johann Kresnik has hit upon a dramatic novelty: His staging has naked pensioners wearing Mickey Mouse masks, wandering around the ruins of New York's World Trade Center. http://www.spiegel.de/
internatio...,546635,00.html
Marcellina |
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04.12.08 - 7:23 pm | #
"And if I hadn't, I would have whined: Where are they?!"
:LOL:
the good news is that i got a new camera this week and have shot about 500 cat pics. the bad news is i dunno when the next time i'll be able to take time to post new ones.
jdw | 04.12.08 - 7:22 pm | #
What kind of camera?
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins |
04.12.08 - 7:24 pm | #
Coming from a long line of white trash, I happen to know that people have deeply held beliefs that are not necessarily the results of bitterness. The guns, the religion, etc.---these are part of the culture and are not always a negative.
I think you are off just a touch. The guns, gods and gays are not the results of bitterness. The bitterness is still because of the economics is what Barack says. The bitterness on economic issues makes people fall back on the other issues they honestly have in their lives, whether or not they are the result of bitterness.
racymind |
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04.12.08 - 7:24 pm | #
I think I need to start drinking for the evening.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:24 pm | #
Who in the fuck, hearing that Obama had an oj instead of coffee, would have drawn any conclusion about his "elitism" from it?
Only someone looking desperately for an excuse to call him "elitist".
Marcellina |
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04.12.08 - 7:26 pm | #
Hubby is reading Extraordinary Circumstances about the collapse of Worldcom. He's just gotten to the point where Bernie Evers is fired, and he got 1.5 million dollars a year for life after he was fired.
Now what happens to all of the people that Obama was talking to when they get fired or laid off? Maybe there is something to what he says about them being bitter and angry.
I wonder how they feel about the billions and billions of dollars of wealthfare that the government is giving banks and mortgage lending companies to save them while the people are being thrown out of their houses? I wonder if that would make them bitter or angry?
foolme1ns |
04.12.08 - 7:26 pm | #
These people are converting to religion because the Dem Congress has failed to stop the war criminal Bush.
mag |
04.12.08 - 7:26 pm | #
I think I need to start drinking for the evening.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas
Let me set up the camera.
(not really... hug and kiss to Zap)
racymind |
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04.12.08 - 7:26 pm | #
Racy has captured what OB said and as he has explained it.
Frustration about economic turmoil leads to reliance on time-tested traditions, including guns, and religion, and family, and ....whatever.
I think you can find much of it in Deerhunter.
peterboy |
04.12.08 - 7:27 pm | #
Dr Wu,
The bitter class?
annie
You bet yer ass.
(And yes, I mis-typed earlier; it was the sainted Babs and not the Laurabot who made fun of Katrina refugees).
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 7:27 pm | #
I can't wait for some more lectures about how elitist Obama is by the salt of the earth types like Hillary, Bomb Iran John McCain and the MSNBC all-stars.
When I want to know what the heartbeat of America is I listen to Chris Matthews.
I know where he was going and I don't exactly disagree, but I think it was a stupid thing to say.
abyssgazer, DraftKang
I think your heritage is very similar to mine, but I interpret the motivations of my ancestors and family differently. In fact, applied to my family, Obama's observations were pretty accurate.
Maybe you're right; there might have been a gentler/more PC way to say it. But this is a conversation we need to have.
I'm not stereotyping everyone, but you and I both live in the south, and you know those people are out there. And also Out There.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go |
04.12.08 - 7:27 pm | #
We've had twenty years of Limbaugh and his ilk telling everyone that all that goes wrong is the fault of either immigrants or foreigners or blacks or uppity women. It has been an intentional program to spread a certain kind of populism, one which never looks at the rich, say.
Echidne |
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04.12.08 - 7:27 pm | #
Thanks, racy! I think that I'm all photoed oot.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:28 pm | #
Dr Wu,
The bitter class?
annie
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I actually like that!!!! What a great moniker. I'm a member of that class!!!
foolme1ns |
04.12.08 - 7:28 pm | #
I'm buying, Zap.
Bushmills here and Grouse.
or white wine.
peterboy |
04.12.08 - 7:29 pm | #
yes, its a very weird populism that never looks at the rich. i dont think teddy roosevelt would recognize it.
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 7:30 pm | #
Schweet, peterboy! I'll take a Bushmills.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.12.08 - 7:30 pm | #
Out for some time. Best wishes to all, and if NTodd, Res, Athenae or Sinf show up, tell 'em I said hi.
DDerbes, writin' demon |
04.12.08 - 7:30 pm | #
Who in the fuck, hearing that Obama had an oj instead of coffee, would have drawn any conclusion about his "elitism" from it?
The American people have an insatiable appetite for horseshit.
Count up the number of people who vote however their preacher tells them to vote; add the number of people who vote however the NRA tells them to vote; add the number of people who vote for whoever Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly tell them to vote for; add the number of people who will vote for McCain because they think they're "supporting the troops". Add in the people who think that John McCain deserves to be president because he was a POW.
My mother, who is a few credit hours and a thesis short of an Ed.D., still thinks Hillary Clinton is a "socialist", and can hardly think of a worse name to call someone than that.
There are people in this country who still believe that marijuana is a gateway drug, that God hates gay people, and that the universe was created in six days in 4004 BC.
An insatiable appetite for horseshit.
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 7:31 pm | #
The moment the subject of economic justice or parity is broached the gatekeepers scream bloody murder about class warfare...then they start bitching about welfare queens.
John McCain calls Obama "elitist," and he owns 8 houses.
Shaw Kenawe |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:31 pm | #
The Would - Be Emperor Maverick McCrazy wears no clothes...
Who in the mainstream media will call him on it?
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.12.08 - 7:31 pm | #
You kids remember this fabulous cover?
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
Homepage |
04.12.08 - 7:31 pm | #
Does McAnus really own eight houses?
helena handbasket |
04.12.08 - 7:32 pm | #
John McCain calls Obama "elitist," and he owns 8 houses.
Shaw Kenawe
And he's never held a private-sector job.
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 7:32 pm | #
The bitterness on economic issues makes people fall back on the other issues they honestly have in their lives, whether or not they are the result of bitterness.
racymind | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 7:24 pm | #
Ah, but so many of the examples he gave were negative. We can disagree here, but I know a lot of people who would be put off that his remarks.
Having said that, it wasn't like he said it in a speech--it was just a casual remark and those don't always come out the way we intend.
abyssgazer, DraftKang |
04.12.08 - 7:32 pm | #
John McCain calls Obama "elitist," and he owns 8 houses.
Shaw Kenawe
Yeah, but maybe they're all "regular guy" houses!
Marcellina |
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04.12.08 - 7:33 pm | #
Out for some time. Best wishes to all, and if NTodd, Res, Athenae or Sinf show up, tell 'em I said hi.
DDerbes, writin' demon
Kiss ass.
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.12.08 - 7:33 pm | #
McCain said he was fine if we are in Iraq for another 100 years.
Americans hate the Iraq war...that and the economy.
peterboy |
04.12.08 - 7:34 pm | #
You aren't talking about his little 'camp' in Arizona that the had the media cookout at?
Having said that, it wasn't like he said it in a speech--it was just a casual remark and those don't always come out the way we intend.
abyssgazer, DraftKang
We'd all be better off.
DuaneV, AtriosiousBehavior |
04.12.08 - 7:35 pm | #
The American people have an insatiable appetite for horseshit.
Also, the American people need to be continuously told that they're THE GREATEST, that the country is THE GREATEST, that their wars are THE GREATEST.
Politicians have to talk to the American people the way that the rest of the world talks to 10 year olds.
When a politician says something real, as Obama did in his "bitter" speech, Americans--NO, the MSM and the political opposition GASPS:
"HOw dare you say we're not THE GREATEST?!!!!!
Shaw Kenawe |
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04.12.08 - 7:35 pm | #
yes, its a very weird populism that never looks at the rich. i dont think teddy roosevelt would recognize it.
pretzelattack
When in reality, every other news story needs to mention the increasing concentration of wealth, CEO salaries, the failure of the rating agencies in the subprime mess, and the structures voted in by Congress that gives incentives to ship jobs across the borders.
The wealthy are going to have to start giving it up, just a fucking little bit. And fuck'em when paying a 5% higher marginal tax rate makes them scream bloody murder.
racymind |
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04.12.08 - 7:35 pm | #
mccain...scarey, cranky old man.
quick trigger. bring back the daisy girl.
peterboy |
04.12.08 - 7:36 pm | #
Mr Sadr was responding to a statement by US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, who said that all those within the political process were not enemies.
I guess they'll just have to agree to disagree.
Lumpenprolitariot |
04.12.08 - 7:37 pm | #
moreover: there are a lot of people who hate the hell out of George Bush but will still see McCain as the lesser of two evils.
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 7:37 pm | #
what racy said.
the rich have to start running scared that the rest of us are going to balk at their privilege.
peterboy |
04.12.08 - 7:37 pm | #
The wealthy are going to have to start giving it up, just a fucking little bit. And fuck'em when paying a 5% higher marginal tax rate makes them scream bloody murder.
racymind
Their only defense against being forced to pay their fair share is the "values voter" suckers who the media has been able to brainwash into voting against their own economic interests; in short, the ignorant sheep that Obama called out in his "gaffe" in Pennsylvania. That should make them at least a little bit nervous.
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 7:39 pm | #
krugman in his book the conscience of a liberal points out that, when you take all taxes into account, the rich dont pay much more percentage wise than the middle class. everytime i hear someone whining about how tough rich people have it i break out my subatomic violin.
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 7:39 pm | #
"I have no enemy but you. You are the occupier," Mr Sadr's statement said.
Did he say that before or after he threw the flowers?
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 7:40 pm | #
the rich have to start running scared that the rest of us are going to balk at their privilege.
I dare say there are a number of people here who meet several definitions of "rich".
I actually like that!!!! What a great moniker. I'm a member of that class!!!
You need to get with Obamanomics. He'll make your bitter sweet, he'll make you rich and then you won't even LIKE coffee anymore.
annie |
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04.12.08 - 7:41 pm | #
I'm digging into Seu Jorge's Bowie covers in Portuguese
Nice.
Zapette just put on Cat Power's new album. Some good, um, covers on that one.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.12.08 - 7:41 pm | #
Did he say that before or after he threw the flowers?
Dr. Wu
Only laugh I've had all day. With all this bitterness stuff.
everytime i hear someone whining about how tough rich people have it i break out my subatomic violin.
pretzelattack
They made their fortunes on the backs of American consumers and American labor, under the protection of the American rule of law and the American military. If they aren't willing to support the people and the system that enabled them to earn their wealth, they're traitors. End of story. Pay the fuck up or get the fuck out.
Dr. Wu |
04.12.08 - 7:43 pm | #
its not about economic revenge, its about restoring some fairness to the system.
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 7:43 pm | #
The Kaiser visits some factory, late in the first world war, when the British blockade has every untitled German starving, and appeals to a phony sense of imperial democracy that never existed. He swears that he will stop fighting if the people want him to. In his delusional stupor he forgets himself and raises his withered arm. Observers of the incident say the workers are totally silent (they would probably be imprisoned at best if they asked the Kaiser to stop the war); the official record says they cried out "No!"
the goddamn k&y |
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04.12.08 - 7:43 pm | #
Zapette just put on Cat Power's new album. Some good, um, covers on that one.
One of Trent Reznor's favorite acts. I didn't realize she just did a covers album. Wild.
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 7:43 pm | #
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ECONOMY, STUPID!
annie |
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04.12.08 - 7:44 pm | #
its not about economic revenge, its about restoring some fairness to the system.
They are the same fucking thing. The Reagan Revolution, far front fighting socialism, was all about straightforward wealth transfer from the people to a tiny parasite caste. Making things fair will require taking it the fuck back.
its not about economic revenge, its about restoring some fairness to the system.
Thank you, dear.
What pisses me off is this: when I was growing up, I was told that if I was a good girl, made good grades, went to college, and got a respectable profession (and a husband with one wouldn't hurt, either), I'd be all right. No one promised I'd be wealthy, but this seemed to come with the guarantee of being able to raise a family, eat, and live indoors.
True elitists vote against SCHIP - health care for babies.
True elitists voted for the bankruptcy bill.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
04.12.08 - 7:46 pm | #
John McCain calls Obama "elitist," and he owns 8 houses.
Yeah, but Obama likes orange juice.
And Al Gore uses electricity.
And Michael Moore is fat.
The media gasbags tell me these are very important issues.
Mike G |
04.12.08 - 7:47 pm | #
With peeps like annie hooking for McCain, this shouldn't be too hard an election to win.
Heh. But let's roll our sleeves up and do it by double digits and rub their noses in it. Search and destroy the foundations of neoconservatism.
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04.12.08 - 7:47 pm | #
The answer is sadly not surprising.
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04.12.08 - 7:48 pm | #
They are the same fucking thing. The Reagan Revolution, far front fighting socialism, was all about straightforward wealth transfer from the people to a tiny parasite caste. Making things fair will require taking it the fuck back.
i dont think thats revenge, i think its justice. the right wing constantly tries to frame the motivations of people that fight the system in a way that denigrates their character. whistleblowers become "disgruntled employees". people that resent the way the wealthy have gamed the system are "envious". i dont think we need to accept labels like that.
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 7:48 pm | #
The son and grandson of admirals, John McCain calls Obama "elitist," and he owns 8 houses.
Shaw Kenawe
Got it - give me awhile, I'm in the middle of my taxes.
Culture Of Truth |
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04.12.08 - 7:49 pm | #
fuck'em when paying a 5% higher marginal tax rate
notice whenever tweets and his ilk bring up the tax issue -- they always lie and distort it, leaving viewers with the impression that the middle class is going to take the hit; when the proposals are for bigger increases against higher wage earners. they curiously fail to make that distinction. i wonder why.
nona |
04.12.08 - 7:50 pm | #
i dont think we need to accept labels like that.
Small town folk are bitter and hate immigrants and shoot guns in Church and hate gays.
Every single one of them. Cookie cutter class.
annie |
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04.12.08 - 7:50 pm | #
What pisses me off is this: when I was growing up, I was told that if I was a good girl, made good grades, went to college, and got a respectable profession (and a husband with one wouldn't hurt, either), I'd be all right. No one promised I'd be wealthy, but this seemed to come with the guarantee of being able to raise a family, eat, and live indoors.
That's all been upended now.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
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What pisses me off is the lectures from the neocons about how this is all the fault of the people who are suffering, when they've been playing against a stacked deck.
I love the lecture Paulson gave the other day, about how we shouldn't blame Bear Stearns for their stupidity and greed, while he's handing them OUR money!!!! WEALTHFARE, plain and simple!!!!
foolme1ns |
04.12.08 - 7:50 pm | #
owns 8 houses.
Shaw Kenawe
and iirc, has his own private plane courtesy of the wife.
nona |
04.12.08 - 7:51 pm | #
They are the same fucking thing. The Reagan Revolution, far front fighting socialism, was all about straightforward wealth transfer from the people to a tiny parasite caste. Making things fair will require taking it the fuck back.
the goddamn k&y
Fuckin A, k&y! Well said.
And good afternoon, Atriots. Go Habs Go!
Ali, now a habs fan |
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04.12.08 - 7:51 pm | #
Shit...I forgot to pour my drink!
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.12.08 - 7:51 pm | #
Man, blue corn enchiladas for dinner (local mexican place).
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 7:51 pm | #
Wealthfare!
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
04.12.08 - 7:52 pm | #
its not about economic revenge, its about restoring some fairness to the system.
I think you are missing my point. I'm not saying that any of this isn't true, or that any of it is not justified.
What I am saying is that if you go around saying things like that, that will not help elect the people who will fix things.
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 7:52 pm | #
exactly! when i was growing up, that social contract wasnt extended to minorities. in the 60s, it seemed like the american dream would be extended to everyone, the way it should be. now, it's more like everyone below a certain class is being marginalized. granted, some much more than others, but john edwards 2 nation message really resonated with me.
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 7:52 pm | #
Hey, CoT, sending you mail.
watertiger
Got it - give me awhile, I'm in the middle of my taxes.
Culture Of Truth | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 7:49 pm |
That sounds dirty.
Buckeye. Dealer of Rare Coins |
04.12.08 - 7:52 pm | #
Michael just took care of bidness of the Godfather. Carlo ought not make any long range plans.
MP |
04.12.08 - 7:52 pm | #
Hell yeah we're envious and we honestly hope that every executive's child who had a tutor to get into a special pre-school gets lynched and burns in hell.
the goddamn k&y |
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04.12.08 - 7:53 pm | #
its not about economic revenge, its about restoring some fairness to the system.
pretzelattack
Well, yeah. It's about people rejecting the wonderful pony stories of the Limbaugh Con and understanding the zero-sumness of many aspects of wealth. The more some people have of certain commodities -- land, homes, water, boats with 3 500-HP engines -- the less there is of some things for everyone else. No one objects to the idea of wealth, but it can get to a point where the accumulation of wealth occurs at the expense of others.
People have been indoctrinated to think that what's good for CEOs who make ginormous bonuses while laying off workers and running companies into the ground is good for them. And it's not. These people get rich because other people get poorer.
Tell me that's why the Founders got off their asses.
V for Virginia, drinks for .go |
04.12.08 - 7:53 pm | #
If they aren't willing to support the people and the system that enabled them to earn their wealth, they're traitors. End of story. Pay the fuck up or get the fuck out.
Dr. Wu
Add to the list corporate criminal liability. Bush's Injustice Department has stopped enforcing the law, where corporations are concerned.
Duane V, Bitter Classist |
04.12.08 - 7:54 pm | #
Anybody still around with keys to this joint? This thread is getting stunk up with a certain ugly troll.
helena handbasket |
04.12.08 - 7:54 pm | #
We've had twenty years of Limbaugh and his ilk telling everyone that all that goes wrong is the fault of either immigrants or foreigners or blacks or uppity women. It has been an intentional program to spread a certain kind of populism, one which never looks at the rich, say.
This, I think, is the element that's missing from Obama's speech and the popularizers of, for example, the works of Thomas Frank and of Kevin Phillips.
People don't just "fall back on" certain issue or comfortable identities in response to economic hardship. People are encouraged to ignore the construction of their economic hardship by invested interests who appeal to people's other concerns.
Homosexual Activist |
04.12.08 - 7:56 pm | #
In Ohio, where about one in 482 homes in Ohio is currently being foreclosed, the industry is thriving. Pay day loan centers are opening everywhere you look. In fact, the Center for Responsible Lending says in the State of Ohio pay day loan centers now outnumber Burger Kings, Wendy's and McDonalds combined.
'We take it our way.'
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QuentinCompson, Clinging |
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04.12.08 - 7:56 pm | #
As much as we want Michael Chertoff to die in a horrible car accident, his latest words have us merely wishing he'd speak through a public secretary (like "the Mouth of Chertoff" or something). Michael Chertoff wants you "to stand it up and go warm on it."
the goddamn k&y |
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04.12.08 - 7:56 pm | #
Now what happens to all of the people that Obama was talking to when they get fired or laid off? Maybe there is something to what he says about them being bitter and angry.
And curiously, the manufactured OUTRAGE is directed at Obama for calling them bitter, by the Corporate Media and the Self-Proclaimed Rethug White Trash Spokespeople. We couldn't possibly have the media address their shitty economic conditions and WHY they are bad, because that might raise uncomfortable questions about the dominant MURKA IS THA GRATEST ideology. Just hammer a candidate who dares point out that not all is well as 'elitist'.
Kyle |
04.12.08 - 7:57 pm | #
Anybody still around with keys to this joint? This thread is getting stunk up with a certain ugly troll.
helena handbasket
There was never a more easily ignored troll than "annie," and (s)he seems content to chatter idly to (him)herself.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 7:57 pm | #
The American people have an insatiable appetite for horseshit.
That is plainly true of most of us who post on blogs.
Homosexual Activist |
04.12.08 - 7:58 pm | #
Well, Fickleson does it again.
Elias: Sans guns or religion. |
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04.12.08 - 7:58 pm | #
Murka is such a shitty country that the only way you can not hate it is if you are, like a Nazi or a Soviet or a subject of some Latin American dictatorship, constantly reinforcing that it is the greatest.
the goddamn k&y |
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04.12.08 - 7:59 pm | #
. Just hammer a candidate who dares point out that not all is well as 'elitist'.
Kyle
Orange juice is the greatest threat to America in modern times.
You know it's true.
V for Virginia, drinkin4.gov |
04.12.08 - 8:00 pm | #
People don't just "fall back on" certain issue or comfortable identities in response to economic hardship. People are encouraged to ignore the construction of their economic hardship by invested interests who appeal to people's other concerns.
Homosexual Activist
Obama has said this very thing on numerous occasions and in his response to McCain and Clinton he takes the opportunity to smooth out some of the rough edges in his extemporaneous remarks.
And curiously, the manufactured OUTRAGE is directed at Obama for calling them bitter, by the Corporate Media and the Self-Proclaimed Rethug White Trash Spokespeople. We couldn't possibly have the media address their shitty economic conditions and WHY they are bad, because that might raise uncomfortable questions about the dominant MURKA IS THA GRATEST ideology. Just hammer a candidate who dares point out that not all is well as 'elitist'.
Kyle
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It is in the elitist's interests(the media as well as the other politicians and big business) to make sure no one reminds the people suffering that they are unhappy and that it can be fixed. They don't want anyone telling the people that perhaps golden parachutes and CEO's making 100's of times what workers make isn't a good thing for America.
foolme1ns |
04.12.08 - 8:01 pm | #
Why do people use that ridiculous capcha recognition thing on blogs? It's so annoying; half the time I can't read the stupid capcha letters to begin with.
Do people really need it to avoid spam? How does Atrios avoid it?
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:02 pm | #
Smedley Butler, Meet John Perkins
By Russell Mokhiber
and Robert Weissman
Remember Smedley Butler?
He was perhaps the most decorated Major General in Marine Corps history. In the early part of this century, he fought and killed for the United States around the world. Butler was awarded two Congressional Medals of Honor. Then, when he returned to the United States he wrote a book titled "War is a Racket" which opens with the memorable lines: "War is a racket. It always has been." "I was a high class muscleman for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers," Butler said. "In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."
In a speech in 1933, Butler said the following: "I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."
Do people really need it to avoid spam? How does Atrios avoid it?
generally you see CAPTCHAs where it is important to verify that the client is a human being.
here, it doesn't matter.
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 8:04 pm | #
I just filed my god damned taxes, which included a deduction for replacing the motherboard on a desktop. I have a love/hate relationship with taxes and computers.
sidhra صي ذ& |
04.12.08 - 8:04 pm | #
If there are no bitter angry people, who the heck is watching Lou Dobbs's show?
Karin Hussein |
04.12.08 - 8:05 pm | #
Smedley Butler
This is a real person?
What mother looks at her newborn infant and says, "we shall name him Smedley!"
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:05 pm | #
What mother looks at her newborn infant and says, "we shall name him Smedley!"
MGen Butler, I believe, was named after his great-grandfather.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 8:06 pm | #
Mitigating the Fan Disaster:
I have my computer on stilts -- just a plastic Diet Coke bottle cap on each of my laptop's little pads that it stands on. This way the air can circulate underneath. This was OK for a while, and then my fan actually died, so now I have a normal table fan pointed at the overheating part in a way that allows air to flow, and while that means I can only use my computer at home and in my office (oh, an external keyboard and mouse are a necessity since otherwise your hands will get cold), it does mean I can use my computer.
Alternatively, they sell these cooling pads at Best Buy that you can put under your computer; I head they're pretty inexpensive.
Mauro |
04.12.08 - 8:06 pm | #
A half-hour later, Zap finally pours his drink.
And his lovely wife his "google-earthing" all of the places in Scotland she'd like to go.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.12.08 - 8:07 pm | #
What mother looks at her newborn infant and says, "we shall name him Smedley!"
I had a buddy in high school whose father named him "Reo", after his favorite truck.
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 8:08 pm | #
MGen Butler, I believe, was named after his great-grandfather.
I wager he had a nickname, like "Skippy" or "Biffy" or "Chip."
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:08 pm | #
Dude, that just pushes the same question back a couple of generations
Marines are kind of like that, historically speaking.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 8:08 pm | #
Orange juice is the greatest threat to America in modern times.
You know it's true.
V for Virginia, drinkin4.gov
That isn't what this lady says:
So it’s the death knell for this country. I honestly think it’s the biggest threat even, that our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam which I think is a big threat, okay. Because what’s happening now, they’re going after, in schools, two year olds. You know what they’re trying to get early childhood education? They want to get our young children into the government schools so they can indoctrinate them. I taught school for close to 20 years and we’re not teaching facts and knowledge anymore, folks, we’re teaching indoctrination. Okay?
I have my computer on stilts -- just a plastic Diet Coke bottle cap on each of my laptop's little pads that it stands on.
I do the same. Have done since an old laptop pretty much toasted itself.
sidhra صي ذ& |
04.12.08 - 8:09 pm | #
Obama has said this very thing on numerous occasions and in his response to McCain and Clinton he takes the opportunity to smooth out some of the rough edges in his extemporaneous remarks.
The main thrust of that bit seems to be that people don't vote on economic issues because "they don't think that anyone is going to help them," so they "take refuge" in other issues, "the things they can count on."
I think that's mistaken. It's just as likely that people don't vote on economic issues because the economic issues are entirely and intentionally obscured as issues in political campaigns.
Homosexual Activist |
04.12.08 - 8:09 pm | #
Oh, my bad... it's MGen Smedley Lamar Butler, USMC.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 8:10 pm | #
just a plastic Diet Coke bottle cap on each of my laptop's little pads that it stands on.
Hm... has to be Diet?
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 8:10 pm | #
I have a love/hate relationship with taxes and computers.
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:11 pm | #
Hm... has to be Diet?
SteveLG | 04.12.08 - 8:10 pm | #
I am running on reserve power and will have to go soon to recharge.
However, let me again ask why Democrat Thurgood Marhsall Jr. is endorsing Bush's judicial pick "Gus" Puryear. Do you think the fact that he's on the CCA board has something to do with it?
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:13 pm | #
I taught school for close to 20 years and we’re not teaching facts and knowledge anymore, folks, we’re teaching indoctrination. Okay?
That's an OK state rep talking about homosexuals.
racymind
Geez, she had me up to homosexuals.
V for Virginia, drinkin4.gov |
04.12.08 - 8:13 pm | #
Well, isn't this awkward. Sort of like that moment in the airport john when someone sits in the stall next to you and you're afraid to be the 1st one to go.
Elias: Sans guns or religion. |
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04.12.08 - 8:14 pm | #
"I have a love/hate relationship with taxes and computers."
--sidhra
I'm going to file an extension, like I always do. Owning your own business does help with some things, but not health insurance, vacations, sick days, and employer contributions to your retirement plan. Having said that, I'm not sure why I have done this all these years.
mer |
04.12.08 - 8:14 pm | #
Smedley's middle name was LAMAR?
That's worse!!!! It's like a Mel Brooks comdey!
Was there a number after his last name, too? Smedley Lamar Butler IV?
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:14 pm | #
I just filed my god damned taxes, which included a deduction for
replacing the motherboard on a desktop. Hey! I'm just about to file my g-d taxes which included a deduction for replacing two major molars! Taxes, dentistry, charity - hard to disentangle things.
And I finished painting the louvered doors without ONE SINGLE ONE OF U PEOPLE HELPING. So there. Ur out of the will. And neither svenska brisket nor doughnuts for AnyBody.
The OK state rep prefaced those remarks I quoted with:
"” Okay, and I’m not ‘anti.’ I’m not gay bashing…” "
Well, that's good enough for me...
racymind |
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04.12.08 - 8:15 pm | #
Because what’s happening now, they’re going after, in schools, two year olds.
That's an OK state rep talking about homosexuals.
WTF are these pants-pissing fundie redneck ninnies so afraid of? They're so conditioned to living in fear, obeying authority and not thinking for themselves that they imagine everyone else is as easily-led as they are, and that any mention of tolerance will turn their kid into Liberace. Or Larry Craig.
Kyle |
04.12.08 - 8:15 pm | #
I honestly think it’s the biggest threat even, that our nation has
But for the seemingly limitless supply of would-be immigrants at our door, we would no doubt soon be (in fact in some ways already are) facing the problem staring China, Italy, and much of Western Europe in the face: failure to bear children at the rate necessary to sustain the current level of population.
And that's a HETEROSEXUAL problem. Straight people are taking too many contraceptives, and not having enough sex.
And, as a childless American, I am a fucking hypocrite. So there.
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 8:15 pm | #
The main thrust of that bit seems to be that people don't vote on economic issues because "they don't think that anyone is going to help them," so they "take refuge" in other issues, "the things they can count on."
I think that's mistaken. It's just as likely that people don't vote on economic issues because the economic issues are entirely and intentionally obscured as issues in political campaigns.
Homosexual Activist
As Senator Obama recently stated:
Like the anger within the black community, these resentments aren't always expressed in polite company. But they have helped shape the political landscape for at least a generation. Anger over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the Reagan Coalition. Politicians routinely exploited fears of crime for their own electoral ends. Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism.
Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed; a Washington dominated by lobbyists and special interests; economic policies that favor the few over the many. And yet, to wish away the resentments of white Americans, to label them as misguided or even racist, without recognizing they are grounded in legitimate concerns - this too widens the racial divide, and blocks the path to understanding.
This is where we are right now. It's a racial stalemate we've been stuck in for years.
...dude has thought this stuff through, y'know? He isn't just making shit up off the cuff.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 8:15 pm | #
Economic stimulus rebate, bitches!!! $1200!
For me, not so much, but nearly a wash with what I owe the Feds. And the State 'o Maine owes me!
sidhra صي ذ& |
04.12.08 - 8:15 pm | #
Smedley's middle name was LAMAR?
No - Darlington. Lamar was an error.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 8:16 pm | #
sidrah
mer
and sign it,
V for Virginia, drinkin4.gov |
04.12.08 - 8:16 pm | #
the manufactured OUTRAGE is directed at Obama for calling them bitter, by the Corporate Media and the Self-Proclaimed Rethug White Trash Spokespeople. We couldn't possibly have the media address their shitty economic conditions and WHY they are bad
All these people so ready to "defend" the working class values attacked by Obama, are full of shit. Where were these so called "champions of the working class" all these years, as their standard of living declined so precipitously?
Obama's being criticized for speaking the truth to these people, about the fact that they've been betrayed by all the "free" market loving, elitist shitwads right now trying to betray them again, into voting against Obama, and their own best interests..
Duane V, Bitter Classist |
04.12.08 - 8:16 pm | #
4 out of 5 Terrorist recommend the USA elect Hussein Obama President.
Warriors for McCain |
04.12.08 - 8:16 pm | #
4 out of 5 Terrorist recommend the USA elect Hussein Obama President.
You conducted the poll yourself, coward?
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.12.08 - 8:17 pm | #
...dude has thought this stuff through, y'know? He isn't just making shit up off the cuff.
SteveLG
What's the plan when President Obamas actions don't match his words? Have you given that any thought?
Elias: Sans guns or religion. |
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04.12.08 - 8:18 pm | #
And curiously, the manufactured OUTRAGE is directed at Obama for calling them bitter
in my rare moments of optimism, i've been wondering if this time around the incessant yammering about bullshit by tweets, et al, isn't gonna backfire in the long run. polls showed the wright thing didn't have any impact; and hillary's still got significant support despite the months' long verbal assault against any and all things clinton. despite all that, both their numbers remain fairly consistent.
the media already has extremely low approval numbers -- curious how that's never cited, isn't it. people seem to be getting a clue about how they blow up these insignificant issues when so many people are dealing with real crises.
nona |
04.12.08 - 8:18 pm | #
I've been trying to remember the troll who posted here 4 or 5 years ago that inspired great hilarity with a comment that began "I'm not a homosexual myself, but.." Good times.
sidhra صي ذ& |
04.12.08 - 8:19 pm | #
Oh yes. Now that this painting is done? I recognise it. It's the standard color scheme for a New Mexico Territorial house. Cream walls, high gloss white woodwork. I wish I could remember stuff consciously. I mean, I like this very much and everything, but it'd be easier if I knew I were recapitulating something rather than having to work it out from scratch. Oh well. Oldness.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
04.12.08 - 8:19 pm | #
Smedley's middle name was LAMAR?
No - Darlington. Lamar was an error.
I suspect that Daddy had a buddy named Smedley Darlington.
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 8:19 pm | #
that does, however, raise the question, in the case of the senior Senator from Tennessee:
why would you go around calling yourself "Lamar" if your first name was "Andrew"?
(Actually, he's Andrew Lamar Alexander Jr., and I imagine Daddy already had 'Andy' all staked out.)
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 8:22 pm | #
BAGHDAD — An $833 million Iraqi arms deal secretly negotiated with Serbia has underscored Iraq’s continuing problems equipping its armed forces, a process that has long been plagued by corruption and inefficiency.
The deal was struck in September without competitive bidding and it sidestepped anticorruption safeguards, including the approval of senior uniformed Iraqi Army officers and an Iraqi contract approval committee. Instead, it was negotiated by a delegation of 22 high-ranking Iraqi officials, without the knowledge of American commanders or many senior Iraqi leaders.
The deal drew enough criticism that Iraqi officials later limited the purchase to $236 million. And much of that equipment, American commanders said, turned out to be either shoddy or inappropriate for the military’s mission.
Once again, things go incredibly well...thanks to our meddling. USA! USA!
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.12.08 - 8:22 pm | #
...dude has thought this stuff through, y'know? He isn't just making shit up off the cuff.
Where did I say he was?
What's the plan when President Obamas actions don't match his words? Have you given that any thought?
That's a lazy response. The president isn't a savior. It's up to you and everybody else to make Obama and the next congress change policy.
Homosexual Activist |
04.12.08 - 8:22 pm | #
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — At least 23 people in 14 states have been sickened by the same strain of salmonella found in two breakfast cereals recalled by Malt-O-Meal, the federal Food and Drug Administration said Saturday.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
04.12.08 - 8:23 pm | #
You're thinking of Hedley Lamarr.
"How did he do such amazing stunts with such little feet?"
watertiger |
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04.12.08 - 8:23 pm | #
Hey V. Love ya. I'm out for a pint. I'm sure you kind folks can deal with the many concerns raised here.
Back in a while.
sidhra صي ذ& |
04.12.08 - 8:23 pm | #
that does, however, raise the question, in the case of the senior Senator from Tennessee:
why would you go around calling yourself "Lamar" if your first name was "Andrew"?
"But I wear flannel shirts and drive a borrowed red pickup! So that proves I'm not teh gay!"
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:23 pm | #
how many american planes did mccain wreck?
4 or 5 I believe. Last one over Hanoi.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 8:23 pm | #
Aw, shit, stepped in it again. . .
That almost addresses my ?
Elias: Sans guns or religion. |
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04.12.08 - 8:24 pm | #
At least 23 people in 14 states have been sickened by the same strain of salmonella found in two breakfast cereals recalled by Malt-O-Meal, the federal Food and Drug Administration said Saturday.
As SteveLG can attest to, the entire town of Northfield, MN smells of chocolate Malt-O-Meal.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.12.08 - 8:24 pm | #
"indispensible" isn't the adjective I'd use ....
oh, I don't know. I've certainly been motivated to dispense with it for some time, but it doesn't seem to be working out.
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 8:24 pm | #
Back in a while.
sidhra
[hugs sidhra, promises to learn to spell her nym]
V for Virginia, drinkin4.gov |
04.12.08 - 8:25 pm | #
Who's the bald guy with the santa beard?
mick |
04.12.08 - 8:25 pm | #
McCain's first act - sending traitor c&nt Jane Fonda to Guantanamo for torturing American heroes in Hanoi.
What's the plan when President Obamas actions don't match his words? Have you given that any thought?
Democratic Congress -- for backup! Just like you guys did with the GOP Congress when Bush proved to be an idiot that was going to lock America into a quagmire in Iraq.
At least 23 people in 14 states have been sickened by the same strain of salmonella found in two breakfast cereals recalled by Malt-O-Meal, the federal Food and Drug Administration said Saturday.
Let me guess, it was made in China, right?
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:25 pm | #
somebody called mccain a "negative ace". i think he wrecked more american planes than the red baron.
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 8:26 pm | #
My current favorite breakfast cereal is Raisin Nut Bran.
mick |
04.12.08 - 8:26 pm | #
Let me guess, it was made in China, right?
Southern Beale | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 8:25 pm | #
Nah, good clean 'murkin cereal.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
04.12.08 - 8:26 pm | #
It's made in Minnesota.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.12.08 - 8:26 pm | #
BAGHDAD — An $833 million Iraqi arms deal secretly negotiated with Serbia has underscored Iraq’s continuing problems equipping its armed forces, a process that has long been plagued by corruption and inefficiency.
The deal was struck in September without competitive bidding and it sidestepped anticorruption safeguards, including the approval of senior uniformed Iraqi Army officers and an Iraqi contract approval committee. Instead, it was negotiated by a delegation of 22 high-ranking Iraqi officials, without the knowledge of American commanders or many senior Iraqi leaders.
The KBR model has taken root in Iraq.
Homosexual Activist |
04.12.08 - 8:27 pm | #
McCain's first act - sending traitor c&nt Jane Fonda to Guantanamo for torturing American heroes in Hanoi.
McCain spent more time with commies than Fonda ever did.
Gomez |
04.12.08 - 8:27 pm | #
I recently started pouring maple syrup on my cereal. I think I need an intervention.
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 8:27 pm | #
That almost addresses my ?
Elias: Sans guns or religion.
OK, be thick, see if I care.
What do you do when any elected official doesn't perform in office as they promised to? Blame teh Clenis?
You don't know any more than I do what either of these people will do in office.
Also, fuck off.
V for Virginia, drinkin4.gov |
04.12.08 - 8:27 pm | #
My current favorite breakfast cereal is Raisin Nut Bran
Someone else with good taste and health sense.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 8:27 pm | #
in my rare moments of optimism, i've been wondering if this time around the incessant yammering about bullshit by tweets, et al, isn't gonna backfire in the long run.
Obama is occasionally injecting some statements exhibiting actual intelligance and nuanced thought into the presidential race.
I expected the corporate media tools and most of the country to hate him for it and quickly devour his candidacy.
But maybe, possibly, this is a rare moment when the national mood is growing tired of the Phenomenal Stupid we are fed every election cycle.
God knows, after eight years of Chimp plumbing the depths, maybe Americans are ready to vote for someone intelligent, who can think and speak in complete sentences, instead of hating him for being smarter than they.
Mike G |
04.12.08 - 8:28 pm | #
if getting tortured makes one a hero, how about those prisoners in abu ghraib? was the american military torturing heroes?
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 8:28 pm | #
I literally look forward to eating Raisin Nut Bran in the morning and it's one of the highlights of my day.
mick |
04.12.08 - 8:28 pm | #
Sad to think its like 50 50 that we'll have a 75 yo pres going through chemo and refusing to step down.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
04.12.08 - 8:28 pm | #
Raisin Nut Bran has the slivered almonds in it, yeah?
In internets speak, that cereal OWNS
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 8:28 pm | #
Where did I say he was?
You didn't. I made that point all on my own.
I just thought you might find it interesting that in the most important speech (as opposed to Q&A session) of his political career, Senator Obama pretty explicitly addressed a couple of the points you seemed to think he was overlooking.
And yes, I agree that Elias's was a lazy response.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 8:29 pm | #
Is Raisin Nut Bran on the list?
mick |
04.12.08 - 8:29 pm | #
McCain was a collaborator.
Gomez |
04.12.08 - 8:29 pm | #
i still like grape nuts. why, its like wild hickory nuts. havent tried maple syrup on cereal, sounds good.
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 8:29 pm | #
Sad to think its like 50 50 that we'll have a 75 yo pres going through chemo and refusing to step down.
Bjorn
Dont' worry, Bjorn. Vice President Condi Rice will be in charge.
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:30 pm | #
We should be thankful to have such an adaptable troll.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.12.08 - 8:30 pm | #
I think they tried to torture him to make him leave.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
04.12.08 - 8:30 pm | #
Is Raisin Nut Bran on the list?
It is in my house.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 8:30 pm | #
It's made in Minnesota.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas
We had this conversation two weeks ago.
Don't. Say. A. Word.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 8:30 pm | #
i still like grape nuts.
I hear many parts are edible.
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:30 pm | #
Dont' worry, Bjorn. Vice President Condi Rice will be in charge.
Southern Beale | Homepage | 04.12.08 - 8:30 pm | #
Sorry, who could have expected?
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
04.12.08 - 8:31 pm | #
Is pie here?
OMG, pie, if you are, those photos made me bawl my eyes out.
Just. delicious.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.12.08 - 8:31 pm | #
Grape Nuts?
"I can think of at least 2 things wrong with that title."
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 8:31 pm | #
I hear many parts are edible
Like this pine cone.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 8:31 pm | #
i wonder if the grapes view this as torture.
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 8:32 pm | #
4 out of 5 Terrorist recommend the USA elect Hussein Obama President.
Warriors for McCain
I've seen so much of this sort of anti-American xenophobic crap on the wingnut blogs. Really. They are shitting themselves green over Obama's name. His name.
Keep the illegal Mexicans and throw these fucktards outta the country, as far as I'm concerned.
you put enough maple syrup on them, pine cones are tasty!
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 8:32 pm | #
Americans are ready to vote for someone intelligent, who can think and speak in complete sentences, instead of hating him for being smarter than they.
Mike G
yeah. i'm esp looking forward to the debates with mccain. not only to see his true asshole self revealed -- cause you just know he can't help himself; but to see how it plays. i've noticed in several newspaper accounts that people frequently get pissed at the gossipy questions posed by the reporter; they want substance.
nona |
04.12.08 - 8:32 pm | #
McCain was a collaborator.
Gomez
Yeah, here's an idea, let's start a 527 and raise some money to put ads on the TV with that info and get on 60 Minutes and then oh, I know, we could put together a documentary telling everyone about it and get it on NBC affiliates all around the country two weeks before the election!
Hah, who am I kidding, the country would never stand for it.
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:33 pm | #
Our native American friends remembered to use every part of the grape nut, not just the delicious, velvety insides.
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 8:33 pm | #
That's a lazy response. The president isn't a savior. It's up to you and everybody else to make Obama and the next congress change policy.
Homosexual Activist
My very lazy and cynical prediction:
Whether it's President Obama or President Clinton, deep into their first term, the US will still have 10s of thousands of troops and contractors occupying Iraq to "protect the embassy" and to "attack AQ." The President will announce a token troop reduction but, after another Shiite/Sunni uprising, will say that the time isn't quite right to withdraw completely.
The MSM and the liberal political elites will essentially ignore the war as it will then become a manageable "low-intensity" conflict. The Repukes will put up a token resistance saying "the Dems are losing Iraq, but it won't resonate because they will be discredited as having gotten us into the mess in the first place.
By this time, the economy will have rebounded and everyone will continue their rampant consumerism. All will be well in Wonderland.
Elias: Sans guns or religion. |
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04.12.08 - 8:33 pm | #
I just thought you might find it interesting that in the most important speech (as opposed to Q&A session) of his political career, Senator Obama pretty explicitly addressed a couple of the points you seemed to think he was overlooking.
I must be typing in crayon, because I'm obviously not being clear. I was talking specifically about the "bitter" speech and what I think hit the sour note that some people outside the media heard. I have heard the "race" address, and I think I've even commented on it at this blog. Much of what he said in the earlier speech was missing from the later comments, and I think that's unfortunate.
Homosexual Activist |
04.12.08 - 8:33 pm | #
So now the yard is wed and fed.
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QuentinCompson, Clinging |
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04.12.08 - 8:33 pm | #
I didn't get grapes or nuts when I bought that cereal. I feel ripped off.
trifecta |
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04.12.08 - 8:33 pm | #
Keep the illegal Mexicans and throw these fucktards outta the country, as far as I'm concerned.
The average illegal has done more work today than loud obs has in his sorry life.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
04.12.08 - 8:33 pm | #
When it comes to cereal, good old fashioned corn flakes still rocks.
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:34 pm | #
McCain was a collaborator.
Gomez | 04.12.08 - 8:29 pm |
I'm confused, are we voting for MCCain now or is Chavez running?
Donny the Democrat |
04.12.08 - 8:34 pm | #
"Sugar cereals stimulate the libido to dangerous levels. I suggest we offer our customers a calmative."
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 8:34 pm | #
grape nuts helped ewell gibbons live to a vibrant ripe old age.
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 8:34 pm | #
4 out of 5 terrorists...
I think terrorists prefer McCain. Not only will he turbocharge their recruiting efforts by continuing to fuck up Iraq, but they admire him for crashing more American planes than Al Qaeda.
Jim J |
04.12.08 - 8:34 pm | #
Right back attcha, toots.
Elias: Sans guns or religion. |
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04.12.08 - 8:35 pm | #
now, it's more like everyone below a certain class is being marginalized. granted, some much more than others, but john edwards 2 nation message really resonated
The rich corporate elite of this country will at some point be forced to acknowledge the fact that the social contract and the commons exists in their own best interests. FDR truly did save capitalism from itself, and the Rush Limbo's of the world will be forced to acknowledge this fact. Maybe after it collapses of it's own weight.
Duane V, Bitter Classist |
04.12.08 - 8:35 pm | #
Much of what he said in the earlier speech was missing from the later comments, and I think that's unfortunate.
Homosexual Activist
currently on Honey Bunches of Oats w/peaches.
1Watt, Hermit |
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04.12.08 - 8:36 pm | #
Warriors for McCain
I've seen so much of this sort of anti-American xenophobic crap on the wingnut blogs. Really. They are shitting themselves green over Obama's name. His name.
isn't that the nimrod upthread pissing about JANE FONDA. she's in her freakin 70s. i bet his little boy bits got a tingle when he typed her name. good grief.
nona |
04.12.08 - 8:36 pm | #
I am a granola and milk kinda guy.
trifecta |
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04.12.08 - 8:37 pm | #
"Sugar cereals stimulate the libido to dangerous levels. I suggest we offer our customers a calmative."
Jay C.
When it comes to cereal, good old fashioned corn flakes still rocks.
Southern Beale
I loves me some Frosted Flakes!!
Duane V, Bitter Classist |
04.12.08 - 8:37 pm | #
My 2007 Federal Income Tax Return was accepted! Calloo! Callay!
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 8:37 pm | #
I think terrorists prefer McCain. Not only will he turbocharge their recruiting efforts by continuing to fuck up Iraq, but they admire him for crashing more American planes than Al Qaeda.
Jim J
It's getting close to blueberry time, which means yogurt and blueberries every day, biatches.
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 8:37 pm | #
Obama tried to quell the furor Saturday, explaining his remarks while also conceding he had chosen his words poorly.
"If I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that," Obama said in an interview with the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal.
...
"I didn't say it as well as I should have," he said.
It's been so long since I've had a bowl of cereal.
I suppose it's all "SUPER EXTREME HIGH-POWERED NUCLEAR AWESOME ROCK STAR GOLD, FUCKIN' GOLDEN SUGAR FLYING OUT OF YOUR COLON CRIPIER THAN THE SCABS ON JOHN MCCAIN'S HEAD", and stuff.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.12.08 - 8:37 pm | #
prunes.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.12.08 - 8:37 pm | #
My 2007 Federal Income Tax Return was accepted! Calloo! Callay!
Mine, too. And I suppose they'll accept the check to pay for the war, too.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.12.08 - 8:38 pm | #
I didn't get grapes or nuts when I bought that cereal. I feel ripped off.
I think it's made of mulched cardboard.
Richard |
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04.12.08 - 8:38 pm | #
A group of temporary immigrant workers says their Warren County boss cheated them on wages and fired them when they complained.
They filed suit April 3 in Winchester, Tenn., saying Allison Tree Digging Service contracted them through the U.S. Department of Labor's H-2A guest worker program, agreeing to pay them the program's 2007 minimum wage of $8.75 per hour and meet other program requirements.
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:38 pm | #
I didn't get grapes or nuts when I bought that cereal. I feel ripped off.
trifecta
If people buy cereal that has ground glass in it and die as a result, that cereal company will go out of business.
This is the magic of the Invisible Hand, and it rawks beyond understanding.
V for Virginia, drinkin4.gov |
04.12.08 - 8:38 pm | #
No prunes, thank you very much.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 8:38 pm | #
OK, a month is up, time to release your medical records:
Jesus Christ. He was under withering sniper fire. What do you expect?
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 8:38 pm | #
I have heard the "race" address, and I think I've even commented on it at this blog. Much of what he said in the earlier speech was missing from the later comments, and I think that's unfortunate.
The bottom line is that for a candidate who was intent on NOT making race an issue, he must be asking himself: What the fuck just happened?
Elias: Sans guns or religion. |
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04.12.08 - 8:38 pm | #
My very lazy and cynical prediction:
And what are you going to do about all that, then?
Homosexual Activist |
04.12.08 - 8:39 pm | #
As a kid, I was all about the Super Golden Crisp.
"And don't try to buy the box of Honey Smacks to save a fucking dollar, mom, I don't want to see that goddam frog again!"
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 8:39 pm | #
I love that Hedley Lamar rant that ends with "...and Methodists". That cracks me right up every time.
MP |
04.12.08 - 8:39 pm | #
Wheat germ with half & half and brown sugar.
mer |
04.12.08 - 8:39 pm | #
I try to avoid anything, cereal or otherwise that has high fructose corn syrup in it, but that's really hard to do.
Some way or another, I'm sure the aspartame/splenda diet sweeteners are bad, but I can't do HFCS.
helena handbasket |
04.12.08 - 8:39 pm | #
you have dissed my cereal (sobs). i shall conduct a meaningful protest by drinking guinness and watching basketball.
pretzelattack |
04.12.08 - 8:40 pm | #
I loves me some Frosted Flakes!!
Duane V, Bitter Classist
cocoa puffs with ice cold milk. but you have to eat them within five minutes before they go mushy.
nona |
04.12.08 - 8:40 pm | #
I think it's made of mulched cardboard.
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:40 pm | #
Oh, fark the tags already.
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:40 pm | #
Big fan of Honeycomb in my yoot.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 8:40 pm | #
Jeez, someone's more obtuse than usual tonight.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.12.08 - 8:40 pm | #
I try to avoid anything, cereal or otherwise that has high fructose corn syrup in it, but that's really hard to do.
Same with sliced bread. We have a couple of non-HFCS brands now, which is cool.
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 8:40 pm | #
buckeye: sorry, had to go away to cook. bught a sony dslr a100. it finally went below $500, i've been watching it for over a year now.
also bought an addn macro lens, hence the flower pics
jdw |
04.12.08 - 8:40 pm | #
Jesus Christ. He was under withering sniper fire. What do you expect?
I will concede he's getting better at it. *All out and early*.
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QuentinCompson, Clinging |
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04.12.08 - 8:40 pm | #
You got some pretty high standards, my friend. Vote a lot?
you have dissed my cereal (sobs). i shall conduct a meaningful protest by drinking guinness and watching basketball.
pretzelattack
The cereal diss! That's some never-forgive action right there. I think that can only be solved by a ski race, or perhaps a dance-off. I need to consult the rules...
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 8:42 pm | #
It's getting close to blueberry time, which means yogurt and blueberries every day, biatches.
Jay C.
At Haymarket on Fridays and Saturdays, you can get 1 lb. cartons of strawberries from Fla. for $1 each. By the end of the day on Saturday, 2 for $1.
I buy them, take them home, and make strawberry preserves with control on the amount of sugar I put in. (hint: it doesn't need a lot.)
I spoon this homemade strawberry preserve in the morning over my organic non-fat plain yogurt, sprinkle some sunflower seeds over it, and I'm in heaven.
I make cranberry preserves, when blueberries are out of season.
Shaw Kenawe |
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04.12.08 - 8:42 pm | #
My current favorite breakfast cereal is Raisin Nut Bran
If people buy cereal that has ground glass in it and die as a result, that cereal company will go out of business.
This is the magic of the Invisible Hand, and it rawks beyond understanding.
V for Virginia, drinkin4.gov
I was told the other day that if enough Americans decided not to buy any health insurance, that the insurers would have to change or go out of business. The gov't doesn't need to be, and shouldn't be, involved
GeorgeM |
04.12.08 - 8:43 pm | #
The cereal diss! That's some never-forgive action right there. I think that can only be solved by a ski race, or perhaps a dance-off. I need to consult the rules...
Ahem, you've got to get that old Camaro you've got sitting in the garage running first. Know a French exchange student that loves the Dodgers? That'll help.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.12.08 - 8:43 pm | #
Hey jdw. Got rainout out of fishing for a few more days. At least I got a couple in.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 8:43 pm | #
Dollah Stores of various brands often have foreign made jams and jellies made with real sugar. From Germany or France, maybe. I like those.
helena handbasket |
04.12.08 - 8:43 pm | #
The bottom line is that for a candidate who was intent on NOT making race an issue, he must be asking himself: What the fuck just happened?
Nah, that's not the bottom line.
You don't want to talk about race and class in this country, don't. But Obama can no more "make race an issue" than you or anyone else can ignore race away as an issue.
Homosexual Activist |
04.12.08 - 8:43 pm | #
I usually make breakfast bars. Oatmeal, raisin, chunky peanut butter, chocolate chips etc.
1Watt, Hermit |
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04.12.08 - 8:44 pm | #
I was told the other day that if enough Americans decided not to buy any health insurance, that the insurers would have to change or go out of business. The gov't doesn't need to be, and shouldn't be, involved
Can't see any problem with that, nosirree.
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:44 pm | #
Breakfast cereal, one of the single person's basic food groups. I go for Honey Bunches of Oats and Cracklin' Oat Bran. Sometimes Cheerios.
I use Rice Dream. Or dry.
racymind |
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04.12.08 - 8:44 pm | #
At Haymarket on Fridays and Saturdays, you can get 1 lb. cartons of strawberries from Fla. for $1 each. By the end of the day on Saturday, 2 for $1.
I love the Haymarket. I always wait for a car-chase to break out, so the cars can overturn the fruit stalls.
Soon we'll have the Harvard market and the Union Sq. farmer's market up and rolling during the week. Good times!
I also recommend Boston Organics, they've been pretty consistently good. And they deliver by bicycle-cart in your neighborhood.
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 8:44 pm | #
mccain must be a tax protester, that's why the press is giving him a pass on his taxes.
peterboy |
04.12.08 - 8:44 pm | #
My gastroenterologist recommends a bowl of Cheerios every morning -- could be worse
OK, I've finally been converted -- I am now an Obama supporter (no longer neutral) -- I just hope he doesn't scream ...
Prior Aelred |
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04.12.08 - 8:44 pm | #
Chardonnay and Fig Newtons - Dinner of Champions
WalterNeff, now on blu-ray |
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04.12.08 - 8:45 pm | #
And what are you going to do about all that, then?
Homosexual Activist
I'll do what I'm able to do. Not what you or anybody else expects me to do. I assume you'll do what you can as well.
I'd just like to know that the very people who worship the idealistic Obama, will change their tone when he breaks their heart, like every other mainstream pol eventually does.
Elias: Sans guns or religion. |
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04.12.08 - 8:45 pm | #
Y sopaipillas!
GWPDA,
And that would be my favorite part. With honey. Lots of honey.
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
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04.12.08 - 8:45 pm | #
Oh, & I don't think McCain owns 8 houses -- IIRC, his wife does -- he is a parasite -- of course she inherited the $ from her Daddy, the Anheiser-Busch distributor
Prior Aelred |
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04.12.08 - 8:46 pm | #
and remember, NO ORANGE JUICE.
Or Tweety will cry manly blue-collar tears all over his Brooks Brothers slacks.
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 8:46 pm | #
I'd just like to know that the very people who worship the idealistic Obama, will change their tone when he breaks their heart
Why, do you get the warm fuzzies?
Personally, I don't get that emotionally involved in my politicians. I realize they are just people and I don't agree with them 100% of the time anyway.
But what WILL break my heart is seeing this country with a Republican president for another 4 years.
Southern Beale |
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04.12.08 - 8:47 pm | #
Obama reminds me of Dog the bounty hunter.
annie |
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04.12.08 - 8:47 pm | #
The farmer's market at Boston City Hall Plaza on Mondays and Wednesdays has the best ciabatta bread I've ever had in my life. At $5 a loaf it's steep, but worth every penny. Organic.
I think the people who make it are from Spencer, Mass.
re: Gonzo - "he carried an impressive personal story as the child of poor Mexican immigrants. Despite those credentials..."
If that's a credential I'm surprised The Elephant Man was never Prime Minister
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04.12.08 - 8:47 pm | #
Nothing wrong with fresh squeezed. But you know it was frozen in some shithole in bitter class Penn.
annie |
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04.12.08 - 8:47 pm | #
It's getting close to blueberry time, which means yogurt and blueberries every day, biatches.
Jay C.
damned armadillos dug up my blueberry efforts. Have one plant left, don't know if it will produce, or if I will have to plant more to cross pollinate.
1Watt, Hermit |
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04.12.08 - 8:48 pm | #
After I deal with these doughnuts, I'm on to making the sopaipillas. To-morrow is fry-day. I shall have sopaipillas with honey, followed by stuffed sopaipillas for dinner, later. (Good thing I looked at the receipt tho - I do not require 4 dozen.)
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
04.12.08 - 8:48 pm | #
You don't want to talk about race and class in this country, don't. But Obama can no more "make race an issue" than you or anyone else can ignore race away as an issue.
Homosexual Activist
You're raising the broader issue of Identity Politics, which I'd love to get into, but not on a weekend. I'd like to have some fun, maybe post some vids.
Elias: Sans guns or religion. |
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04.12.08 - 8:48 pm | #
I'd just like to know that the very people who worship the idealistic Obama, will change their tone when he breaks their heart, like every other mainstream pol eventually does.
So you're just in it for the gloating. Gotcha.
Homosexual Activist |
04.12.08 - 8:49 pm | #
Breakfast cereal, one of the single person's basic food groups. I go for Honey Bunches of Oats and Cracklin' Oat Bran. Sometimes Cheerios.
I've tried so many times to eat cereal in the morning. Can't do it. I feel like a horse munching on hay.
Echidne |
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04.12.08 - 8:49 pm | #
What mother looks at her newborn infant and says, "we shall name him Smedley!"
My sister lived next door to a guy who's father named "States Rights".
Lumpenprolitariot |
04.12.08 - 8:50 pm | #
74 in Seattle today - I love Al Gore
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04.12.08 - 8:50 pm | #
I've tried so many times to eat cereal in the morning. Can't do it. I feel like a horse munching on hay.
Echidne
Ever try to eat it fast?
annie |
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04.12.08 - 8:51 pm | #
I just hope he doesn't scream ...
Prior Aelred
That's one thing I don't imagine you have to worry about.
It'll be something else, of course. They're flinging everything at him that's not nailed down to see what sticks. He's doing well, though... I think he's more prepared for this than anyone might have imagined.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 8:51 pm | #
I had a Monte Cristo for lunch
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After I deal with these doughnuts, I'm on to making the sopaipillas. To-morrow is fry-day. I shall have sopaipillas with honey, followed by stuffed sopaipillas for dinner, later. (Good thing I looked at the receipt tho - I do not require 4 dozen.)
GWPDA,
Um ... keep talking like that and you just might because a horde of us will descend upon Phoenix.
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04.12.08 - 8:51 pm | #
Chardonnay and Fig Newtons - Dinner of Champions
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What a boor! We all know that you drink RED wine with Fig Newtons, white wine with Fruit Newtons
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04.12.08 - 8:51 pm | #
I've tried so many times to eat cereal in the morning. Can't do it. I feel like a horse munching on hay.
Echidne
you and me, sistah.
In my house, my mother and father had caffe latte with bread for breakfast.
Italian-style breakfast. On the weekends, a soft-boiled egg.
We didn't drink orange juice. Still don't like it in the mornings.
We ate pancakes or waffles on Sunday nights.
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04.12.08 - 8:52 pm | #
HOW TO MAKE CHURROS FROM TRES ESTRELLAS CHURRO FLOUR MIX
1) Heat aprox. 1 inch of cooking oil in a deep frying pan. 2) Combine 1 cup of hot water with 1 1/2 cups of Churros Mix in a large mixing bowl. 3) Beat mixture 2-3 minutes with a wooden spoon until mix becomes spongy and uniform. 4) Place mix into plastic pastry bag or churrera (included). Fold end of bag very tightly and squeeze mix through tapered end into the hot cooking oil. For best results squeeze a 5 inch strip leaving a space between each and do not cook to many at one time. 5) Fry churros until golden brown, drain, thoroughly. Dip in sugar with cinnamon and serve hot.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
04.12.08 - 8:52 pm | #
damned armadillos dug up my blueberry efforts
Circle them with large doses of cayenne pepper.
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QuentinCompson, Clinging |
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04.12.08 - 8:52 pm | #
This is the magic of the Invisible Hand, and it rawks beyond understanding.
V for Virginia, drinkin4.gov
What I want to know is, does the invisible hand masturbate with a giant invisible cock, or a giant invisible clitoris? Or does the invisible hand possess the genitalia of both sexes?
Duane V, Bitter Classist |
04.12.08 - 8:52 pm | #
I had a Monte Cristo for lunch
WalterNeff, now on blu-ray
Will there be fried empanadas also? I made those last week, pretty damned good.
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04.12.08 - 8:53 pm | #
I've tried so many times to eat cereal in the morning. Can't do it. I feel like a horse munching on hay.
Echidne
That's how my roommate and I rate the various kinds of granola available at the store. On a scale of 1 to 5 "feedbags" for how horsey it is.
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04.12.08 - 8:53 pm | #
I eat oatmeal for breakfast - sometimes with a gun to my head
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04.12.08 - 8:53 pm | #
the very people who worship the idealistic Obama, will change their tone when he breaks their heart, like every other mainstream pol eventually does.
Elias: Sans guns or religion
Of course, politics is the art of selling out. I mean, "compromise"..
Duane V, Bitter Classist |
04.12.08 - 8:53 pm | #
I had black bean and veggie burritos for dinner. Kinda rawked. That's the benefit of living a mile from Cesar Chavez St. and El Burrito Mercado.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.12.08 - 8:54 pm | #
And are churros anything like burros?
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04.12.08 - 8:54 pm | #
What a boor! We all know that you drink RED wine with Fig Newtons, white wine with Fruit Newtons
racymind
Cereal is impossible to eat in a hurry.
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04.12.08 - 8:54 pm | #
But what WILL break my heart is seeing this country with a Republican president for another 4 years.
I heartily agree, and that's why I've been trying to push the line that it's better to have the candidate that can beat the fascists. I just happen to think it's HRC, for a lot of reasons, not least of which is her winning the larger electoral states.
I just think the era of idealism is over. It's not 1960 anymore. If there is a valid comparison, it would be that an idealistic candidate who promises a more peaceful planet will go and start a war somewhere to prove he's tough on this era's "ism." Not to mention expanding the national security state, covert wars, a Middle Eastern Bay of Pigs, etc.
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04.12.08 - 8:54 pm | #
That's how my roommate and I rate the various kinds of granola available at the store. On a scale of 1 to 5 "feedbags" for how horsey it is.
They should put that on the packaging. It would be helpful for buyers.
Echidne |
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04.12.08 - 8:54 pm | #
"Jebediah Tallmadge's Five-Feedbag Organic Granola, now with less flavor."
Jay C. |
04.12.08 - 8:54 pm | #
took a photo of it, too lazy to post just now
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04.12.08 - 8:54 pm | #
I was told the other day that if enough Americans decided not to buy any health insurance, that the insurers would have to change or go out of business. The gov't doesn't need to be, and shouldn't be, involved
In addition to the people who can't AFFORD health insurance, there are people (like, for example, me) who are not particularly destitute, but cannot purchase health insurance AT ANY PRICE. No sane insurance company will change its business model to accommodate us.
Pardon me if I'm belaboring the obvious.
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 8:54 pm | #
Yeah, I don't like oatmeal but perforce must eat it occasionally. Kind of like sardines: twice a year, whether I need to or not.
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04.12.08 - 8:55 pm | #
I've tried so many times to eat cereal in the morning. Can't do it. I feel like a horse munching on hay.
Echidne
Well, now I have a YouTube in my head of Echidne taking one bite of ceral. And chewing, and chewing. And chewing..
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04.12.08 - 8:55 pm | #
I've tried so many times to eat cereal in the morning. Can't do it. I feel like a horse munching on hay.
Echidne |
It's usually my before bed snack.
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04.12.08 - 8:55 pm | #
Cereal is impossible to eat in a hurry.
- also Charlize Theron
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04.12.08 - 8:55 pm | #
I had grilled veggies and portabello mushrooms over savory polenta for dinner. Delish. With a mug of Guiness.
Up the Republic!
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04.12.08 - 8:56 pm | #
So you're just in it for the gloating. Gotcha.
Homosexual Activist
No, I'm just a realist, which is a euphemism for "cynical prick."
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04.12.08 - 8:56 pm | #
Cereal is impossible to eat in a hurry.
I can cure you of that.
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 8:56 pm | #
Orange juice? I got four orange trees - orange juice isn't exactly elitist. Grapefruit juice? My neighbor's trees are right across the street - not an issue. I'm just waiting for the blood orange to fruit - now that'll be some elite juice!
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
04.12.08 - 8:56 pm | #
Man...Supertramp really is that bad.
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I can cure you of that.
theodoric of athens
How can you cure me of what?
annie |
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04.12.08 - 8:57 pm | #
In college, sometimes I would spoon peanut butter into a bowl of Cocoa Crispies. And wash it down with Mountain Dew.
That's breakfast taken the EXXXTREME.
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04.12.08 - 8:57 pm | #
My mother never made American style pancakes. On the weekends we had palacinken, which is a thin, crepe-like Hungarian pancake, rolled up with jam inside.
Karin Hussein |
04.12.08 - 8:57 pm | #
You're a fucking wildman, Elias.
I'd suggest something else, but you might accuse me of being sexist.
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04.12.08 - 8:57 pm | #
annie's favorite menu is Paula Dean's Ritz Cracker Mayonnaise Pie
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04.12.08 - 8:57 pm | #
High speed intertubes just came back in my neighborhood. Thanks a lot, Comcast - you are definitely Comcastic!
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04.12.08 - 8:57 pm | #
That's breakfast taken the EXXXTREME.
You were suppose to chase that with a Pixie Stick.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas |
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04.12.08 - 8:58 pm | #
Churros? Churros are long, fried doughnuts, cinnamon flavored mostly. Burros, are not.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Historian |
04.12.08 - 8:58 pm | #
We all know that you drink RED wine with Fig Newtons, white wine with Fruit Newtons
Pop-Tart charts are printed right on the vintners' labels!
Homosexual Activist |
04.12.08 - 8:58 pm | #
My mother never made American style pancakes. On the weekends we had palacinken, which is a thin, crepe-like Hungarian pancake, rolled up with jam inside.
Karin Hussein
My Hungarian-German first husband taught me how to make Swedish pancakes. Essentially French crepes.
They were wonderful. And so was he.
Shaw Kenawe |
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04.12.08 - 8:59 pm | #
I was strung out on Pixy Sticks through most of the early Sixties
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04.12.08 - 8:59 pm | #
My mother never made American style pancakes. On the weekends we had palacinken, which is a thin, crepe-like Hungarian pancake, rolled up with jam inside.
My great grandmother, who was from Upper Silesia, made those too. She called them Eierkuchen. An eggy crepe rolled up with butter and jam. I make them now, every once in awhile.
Tlazolteotl |
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04.12.08 - 8:59 pm | #
annie's favorite menu is Paula Dean's Ritz Cracker Mayonnaise Pie
WalterNeff, now on blu-ray
Does it go well with the I've-never-made-a-cogent-argument-ever flavored ice cream in it's freezer?
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04.12.08 - 8:59 pm | #
barndog:
"Hey jdw. Got rainout out of fishing for a few more days. At least I got a couple in."
good for you!!!! i start getting the itch, but when i have gone in april i kick myself because there's never any risers and that's x fewer days i can take off to fish when there *are* risers.
so, it'll be in early may before i get out. worst time of year for me now, too. everyone wants their shit, ya know?
jdw |
04.12.08 - 8:59 pm | #
How can you cure me of what?
The Big O.
Snow (D-SC) |
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04.12.08 - 8:59 pm | #
With all the sugar coated, sugar based sugar cereal in the 60's, I'm surprised any of us were able to stumble out of the house.
MP |
04.12.08 - 8:59 pm | #
SteveLG --
Obama is smart -- not just book smart -- I think that would be a nice change
Prior Aelred |
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04.12.08 - 8:59 pm | #
High speed intertubes just came back in my neighborhood. Thanks a lot, Comcast - you are definitely Comcastic!
oh, to have Comcast again.
little do you know how lucky you are.
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 9:00 pm | #
Cereal is impossible to eat in a hurry.
Do you know how many people have died from eating peanut butter in a hurry right out of the jar?
Homosexual Activist |
04.12.08 - 9:00 pm | #
Orange juice? I got four orange trees - orange juice isn't exactly elitist.
It's not the orange juice that's elitist... it's the uppity feller not gratefully accepting what he was offered that's elitist.
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04.12.08 - 9:00 pm | #
Hero Preserves rock. So does that French stuff, St. Dalfour. Talk about your elitist jams and jellies.
Karin Hussein |
04.12.08 - 9:00 pm | #
Meh. Scifi Saturday Night looks lame. Again.
The golden days of "Mansquito" are in the past.
Richard |
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04.12.08 - 9:01 pm | #
True story - I was flipping through the channels yesterday afternoon and when the Food Network passed by Paula Dean was licking her fingers.
She is disgusting - Phyllis gets gaggy when Dean is on the teebee. Gives her the willies.
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04.12.08 - 9:01 pm | #
I had grilled veggies and portabello mushrooms over savory polenta for dinner. Delish. With a mug of Guiness.
Cept for the Guinness, that's a great vegan dish! Polenta makes an amazing meal. So many variations. I make a vegan tofu cream sauce that I mix with tomato sauce and pour it over polenta.
Fucking rocks!
Elias: Sans guns or religion. |
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04.12.08 - 9:01 pm | #
Hero Preserves rock. So does that French stuff, St. Dalfour. Talk about your elitist jams and jellies.
Karin Hussein
Yeah, I don't like oatmeal but perforce must eat it occasionally. Kind of like sardines: twice a year, whether I need to or not.
helena handbasket |
I'm that way for braunswizer(sp) Early spring, late summer. crave sammiches w/horseradish.
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04.12.08 - 9:01 pm | #
everyone wants their shit, ya know?
Me too. Got my eyes on a TFO 9wt 10' flyrod. And, a Ross CLA-4 to go with it.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 9:02 pm | #
Meh. Scifi Saturday Night looks lame. Again.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
What demographic do you think they are targeting?
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04.12.08 - 9:02 pm | #
With all the sugar coated, sugar based sugar cereal in the 60's, I'm surprised any of us were able to stumble out of the house.
I used to eat Captain Crunch from the treasure chest bowl you got when you sent in the appropriate number of boxtops.
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04.12.08 - 9:03 pm | #
Aren't the people in the Middle East who fall back on God and guns called jihadists?
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04.12.08 - 9:03 pm | #
The fan left behind a note. It read, "Better anywhere else than Philadelphia".
JWL |
04.12.08 - 9:03 pm | #
You don't find much pure pineapple juice
Or unsweetened cranberry juice not from concentrate.
Homosexual Activist |
04.12.08 - 9:03 pm | #
It's Obama, Stupid: Carter and Gore to end Clinton Bid
I offer without comment.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Interesting.
Isn't "The Scotsman" the newspaper whose interview nuked Samantha Power?
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 9:03 pm | #
Karin!!!
BTW, I did not intend to imply with my earlier comment that the chimperor was book smart -- he has never manifested any kind of intelligence at all, that I have noticed.
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04.12.08 - 9:04 pm | #
Man...Supertramp really is that bad.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas
As long as we're discussing breakfast in America..
I just bought some black cherry and some apricot. Yum!
I'm one of those people who always love to go in the little shops around here run by Russian immigrants - good breads and cheeses and jams and stuff.
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04.12.08 - 9:04 pm | #
The Big O.
Snow (D-SC) |
I thought the orange juice thread was yesterday.
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04.12.08 - 9:04 pm | #
You don't find much pure pineapple juice
Peel and core a pineapple, place into food processor on puree.
Voila! Pineapple juice.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 9:05 pm | #
I think Snow is being vulgar.
annie |
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04.12.08 - 9:05 pm | #
Captain Crunch is used at Gitmo to tear out the roof of the mouths of detainees. Fact.
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04.12.08 - 9:05 pm | #
My mother still makes scratch biscuits for breakfast, if she runs out of everything else. Talk about reversed priorities.
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QuentinCompson, Clinging |
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04.12.08 - 9:06 pm | #
Polenta
down south we call that mush.
1Watt, Hermit |
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04.12.08 - 9:06 pm | #
Tofu!
Jay C.
You can feed a family of nine for $3.50 a year and insulate your home at the same time!
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04.12.08 - 9:06 pm | #
Vicki!!!
The commenters on that site look like they are trying to wrest from Atrios's trolls the status of "stupidest trolls ever!"
Prior Aelred |
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04.12.08 - 9:07 pm | #
Tofu is compressed Chinese spitoon fillin.
annie |
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04.12.08 - 9:08 pm | #
I just busted out the old bass guitar. I can still kinda play, but the strings have rust on them. Good thing I'm not getting the band back together.
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04.12.08 - 9:08 pm | #
Whassamatater with Guiness and vegans?
racymind
Okay, (like people need ANOTHER reason to hate me) a friend of mine, who is a hard-core vegan (I'm more passive) claims that animal byproducts are used to make darker-flavored beers. That's all I know.
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04.12.08 - 9:08 pm | #
Aren't the people in the Middle East who fall back on God and guns called jihadists?
last I checked, "Onward, Christian Soldiers" was still in the Methodist hymnal.
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 9:09 pm | #
Bass strings tend to be expensive, relative to guitar, mandolin, etc.
Barndog, not currently fishing |
04.12.08 - 9:10 pm | #
I heard that a basic ingredient of all dark beers is christian babies' blood.
Just sayin'.
V for Virginia, drinkin4.gov |
04.12.08 - 9:10 pm | #
It's not the orange juice that's elitist... it's the uppity feller not gratefully accepting what he was offered that's elitist.
Here, he'd have been (and probably has been) offered orange juice.
As a kid, my family were recovering oatmeal eaters. Somehow, sending the kiddies out into the 100degree heat with a tummy full of hot oatmeal didn't work too well, no matter how au fait it was in Calgary. Quite soon we were all switched over to breakfasts of peanut butter toast - sometimes with added raisins, sometimes raisin toast with peanut butter. And orange juice.
The crush little bugs to make red dye, Elias. They CRUSH the bugs!!!
I hope you remember that and change your diet accordingly.
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04.12.08 - 9:10 pm | #
Tofu is compressed Chinese spitoon fillin.
You're an anti-Tofite!
Seriously, if you do it right, tofu can be pretty awesome. Think of it as a blank canvas. You make of it whatever you add to it. Whatever spice you like, it absorbs it and takes on its identity.
I beg of you: LEAVE TOFU ALONE!!!
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04.12.08 - 9:11 pm | #
I heard that a basic ingredient of all dark beers is christian babies' blood
But only the Jews make it that way.
annie |
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04.12.08 - 9:11 pm | #
Annie, what r u talking about? Who crushes what bugs for what?
Elias: Sans guns or religion. |
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04.12.08 - 9:12 pm | #
it absorbs it and takes on its identity.
Sounds communist to me.
annie |
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04.12.08 - 9:12 pm | #
The yeast cultures die in the process of making beer but it is a happy death for them...
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04.12.08 - 9:12 pm | #
V4V
Got your email.
I'll reply when I'm somewhat less toasty.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 9:13 pm | #
I heard that a basic ingredient of all dark beers is christian babies' blood.
You're gonna love tofu, or else!
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04.12.08 - 9:14 pm | #
I used to eat Captain Crunch from the treasure chest bowl you got when you sent in the appropriate number of boxtops.
Richard
I had one too. Molded plastic was such a fascinating wonder to me back then.
MP |
04.12.08 - 9:15 pm | #
I don't do links.
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04.12.08 - 9:15 pm | #
And gay immigrants' sperm
That's the vessel of the kindergarten recruitment program.
Whoops. Perhaps I've said too much.
Homosexual Activist |
04.12.08 - 9:15 pm | #
It's Obama, Stupid: Carter and Gore to end Clinton Bid
Which article includes no news or quotes from Gore or Carter, which flatly contradicts Gore's recent public statements on the matter, and which offers no glimpse of a theory whereby Hillary would do anything Al or Jimmy requested.
Other than that, fine.
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04.12.08 - 9:15 pm | #
The Minnesota Tax Cut Coalition held its annual rally at the State Capitol on Saturday, drawing a crowd of about 1,000 people demanding that legislators stop "wasteful'' spending and allow Minnesotans to keep more of their paychecks.
Government funding to support light rail transit, the social safety net and the Twins ballpark were among the targets of complaints among the crowd, which spilled across the Capitol lawn.
"Why should I pay for something I'm not going to use?" asked Ed Hanson, of Mendota Heights, referring to the light-rail line. "I want the government out of my life.''
wonder how cold tolerant rhubarb is? Mine are up about 5-6 inches, going to get close to freezing tonight & below freezing tomorrow night.
1Watt, Hermit |
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04.12.08 - 9:18 pm | #
Bass strings tend to be expensive, relative to guitar, mandolin, etc.
Barndog, not currently fishing | 04.12.08 - 9:10 pm | #
But they last longer than that honey way back in the pantry.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
04.12.08 - 9:18 pm | #
You're not the boss of me. I didn't ask you what's tofu. I know what's tofu. It's nasty slime curd.
annie |
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04.12.08 - 9:18 pm | #
'Night, y'all. Gonna go watch Harry Potter and/or Star Wars.
helena handbasket |
04.12.08 - 9:18 pm | #
I'm FUCKING PISSED OFF?
V for Virginia, drinkin4.gov
You should be.
I thought your response was perfect.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 9:18 pm | #
I heard that a basic ingredient of all dark beers is christian babies' blood.
And gay immigrants' sperm.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas
I thought everyone knew that.
V for Virginia, drinkin4.gov |
04.12.08 - 9:19 pm | #
I just busted out the old bass guitar.
ronjazz did an arrangement of 4'3" for that.
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04.12.08 - 9:19 pm | #
Boil them.
I thought you only do that with new strings. I don't think it'd do much good doing that to old strings, then restringing them (which is a pain).
But I found an un-open package of strings in the case. I'll just change 'em.
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04.12.08 - 9:19 pm | #
From what I gather, you have a Dell E1505. I have the same problem, though not with the fan, but with temp sensor.
Search for i8kfangui or something. With that software, see if you can manually start fan.
saguaro |
04.12.08 - 9:19 pm | #
You're not the boss of me. I didn't ask you what's tofu. I know what's tofu. It's nasty slime curd.
Alright, dear, now get back in the kitchen and cook me my tofu. And get me a vegan beer while you're in there!
Elias: Sans guns or religion. |
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04.12.08 - 9:20 pm | #
Boil them.
Just make sure you remove them from the bass, first.
Bjorn,a poor young country boi |
04.12.08 - 9:20 pm | #
I thought you only do that with new strings.
It cleaned all the finger dust off of them for me.
MP |
04.12.08 - 9:20 pm | #
ronjazz did an arrangement of 4'3" for that.
you mean 4'33", right?
theodoric of athens |
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04.12.08 - 9:20 pm | #
"I'm FUCKING PISSED OFF?"
sorry.
that's my normal mood...
I missed what happened to ya but i hope it gets better
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04.12.08 - 9:20 pm | #
wonder how cold tolerant rhubarb is? Mine are up about 5-6 inches, going to get close to freezing tonight & below freezing tomorrow night.
1Watt, Hermit
You might throw something over them. I think they can probably survive if they don't actually freeze.
Although they should die, because rhubarb is the food of Satan.
V for Virginia, drinkin4.gov |
04.12.08 - 9:21 pm | #
are we talking about breakfast?
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04.12.08 - 9:21 pm | #
I missed what happened to ya but i hope it gets better
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher
Oh, no -- you will not escape my pity party! E-mail pending.
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04.12.08 - 9:21 pm | #
Noting that she was a child of the Midwest and the "granddaughter of a factory worker," Clinton said: "Now, like some of you may have been, I was taken aback by the demeaning remarks Senator Obama made about people in small town America. Senator Obama's remarks are elitist and they are out of touch. They are not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans. Certainly not the Americans that I know -- not the Americans I grew up with, not the Americans I lived with in Arkansas or represent in New York."
You got nuthin', dear. Give it up.
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 9:22 pm | #
Eat meat. Stop being a poser.
annie |
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04.12.08 - 9:23 pm | #
Anybody ever hear John Prine sing "Some Humans Ain't Human'? Great song, he's doing it now on Austin City Limits.
Karin Hussein |
04.12.08 - 9:23 pm | #
It cleaned all the finger dust off of them for me.
Oh, this is well beyond mere finger dust. If I played the bass with a pick, they'd snap in a minute.
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04.12.08 - 9:23 pm | #
you mean 4'33", right?
theodoric of athens
He's still working on it.
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04.12.08 - 9:23 pm | #
SHEETS
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
04.12.08 - 9:24 pm | #
Joe Trippi, Democratic consultant/former adviser to John Edwards's campaign: "The fight in Pennsylvania is over working people. It should not surprise anyone that Obama is speaking to their frustrations, or that Clinton is branding Obama an elitist. Obama crossed the line to touch the two issues -- guns and religion -- that most politicians try hard to avoid, but that is part of his appeal and he quickly moved to explain his words. It's unlikely to stop his march to the nomination. It is more likely that the Clinton campaign did itself more damage by crossing the line and insinuating once again that Obama was somehow un-American."
SteveLG |
04.12.08 - 9:25 pm | #
Hey, Avedon!
Any chance of a new thread?
Diane C. Barking-Mad |
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04.12.08 - 9:25 pm | #
If I played the bass with a pick, they'd snap in a minute.
are out of touch. They are not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans. Certainly not the Americans that I know -- not the Americans I grew up with, not the Americans I lived with in Arkansas or represent in New York."
I am so fucking over her ass it's not funny.
V for Virginia, drinkin4.gov |
04.12.08 - 9:27 pm | #
THose eathquakes are bitter.
annie |
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04.12.08 - 9:27 pm | #
A vegan diet is too much trouble to be healthy.
Eat meat. Stop being a poser.
annie
I was busting your balls, "dear."
And what you just said is bullshit. A vegan diet is the healthiest diet there is. Why do you think Eastern cultures have less instances of cancer, heart disease, etc? Becuase their diet is primarily plant derived. Disease is increasing in their countries now because they're adopting a Western diet which not only kills people prematurely, but is killing the planet as more cattle are needed which creates more factory farms which destroys more rainforest, etc.
I'm done.
Elias: Sans guns or religion. |
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04.12.08 - 9:27 pm | #
" you will not escape my pity party! E-mail pending."
We've all been there. so sorry.
Uncle Blodge, Urban Teacher |
04.12.08 - 9:28 pm | #
Lil somethin for our lady friends in the audience:
Kohls is now selling Vera Wang. The commercial has young women driving down a windy highway and stopping and riding a merry go round in the middle of the desert. All of this to the song Horse with No name.
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04.12.08 - 10:23 pm | #