And speaking of things that are ubiquitous and as dumb as houseplants, today I pulled the plug in the sink and all the water ran out. That must mean Ace at Ace of Spades is saying something psychotically stupid.
This time, though, his overly excitable italics caught Sully’s attention:
I’ve gotten used to having my gayness used against me in blogospheric spats. Whatever. It’s a free country. But I have rarely received as unhinged a homophobic rant as the one Glenn Reynolds just linked to, directed against Glenn Greenwald. Matt raises an eyebrow here.
The rant in question?
Not that I’m saying homosexuality is incompatible with masculinity, of course. Consenting biweekly to having one’s duodenum battered with the manic hydraulic fury of a tricked-out V-12 jackhammer manned by an epileptic Con-Ed worker with an ancestral oath of vengeance against asphalt would, I think, tend to butch one up, at least as regards one’s pain threshold.
Okay, putting aside the creepy amount of detail with which Ace has clearly imagined all this, and just for a moment, putting aside that this is Glenn Greenwald he’s talking about, a man whose cufflinks are more talented and intelligent than Ace will ever be in his wildest dreams, just ignoring all of that, this is the same appalingly written spew he leveled at Alex from Wonkette three months ago. Pretty much word for word.
“You want dudes to shank you up your manpooters, fine. But you don’t have to be a 12 year old girl about it, do you? Quite frankly, I’d imagine that frequently getting dorked up the drop-pipe would, due to the pain and general unpleasantness of the experience, tend to instill one with a certain amount of quiet, manfully steely resolve, like a toughened soldier waving off anaesthesia even though he’s got a bit chunk of shrapnel in his gut, only it’s even worse than that, because it turns out that shrapnel is really a great big cock shredding his duodenum with the quavering manic intensity of a palsied ConEd worker with a tricked-out V8 jackhammer and and an ancestral vow of vengeance against ashphalt.”
Ace, Ace, Ace…food that tasted wretched going down assuredly does not improve in flavor when it comes back up.
So endeth the lesson.
*gong sound*
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Zedi The Yeti?
Don’t deux drugs !!!
Only users lose drugs.
Homophobes are obsessed with gay sex. OBSESSED I say.
-GSD
Wow… just, wow.
TRex @ 3
707 !!!
One question. Why do people feel the need to make comments like that?
TexB @ 7
Sigh.
Not enough dick going up their a**es.
Dover Bitch @ 5
I want to thank you for your posts at Hullabaloo, nice job, DB!!!
Having read thru the post, and a bit of the links . . . I just hope we’ll come to a day when homophobic and racist demogaugery goes by the wayside of history.
As Violet Blue, a Sexoligist who writes for SF GATE/Chron once penned:
“They are the dinasaurs. We are the meteor.”
No disrespect to theropods OR their tails (nickname) . . *G*
And with that, I bid all a fond adieu.
If it was earlier, I’d wish all of youse a fine fondue, but desert’s been served and it’s time to tuck in early Left Coast.
Mr. TRex, rawhk on . . .
TRex @ 8
Thank you for explaining.
Oh me oh my. He would give anything to be man enough to be gay.
Any time!
A quick OT.
More evidence that Bush is without a conscience.
Geronimo’s family wants his bones back.
G.W.’s Grandfather is a graverobber.
-GSD
On CSPAN3 right now: they are showing a re-run of a 2005 show on the Watergate’s Legacy. Hmm, why do you suppose they’re re-showing it now?
Bob in HI
TRex @ 13
New radio you may want to check out:
Welcome to Strictly Confidential – Coming June 18 to the Head-On Radio Network 9 pm till 11 pm Eastern Mon. thru Fri.
For too long the fundamentalist “Christian Right” has waged war on the GLBT community. While the “Christian Right” continues to block hate crime legislation, claiming it interferes with their freedom of religion, the Bush administration, cowering to their will, supports this outrage by threatening to veto legislation that would add the GLBT community to the current hate crime laws. Mind you that the “Christian Right” already enjoys protection under the said law.
GLBT individuals are routinely beaten, murdered, discharged by the military, fired and have their children taken from them at the hands of bigots who claim the moral authority to rid the world of dykes and fags. They are doing this with the full “wink and a nod” endorsement of fundamentalist Churches. Why? Some of the “faithful” do not approve of our relationships or of our commitments to one another. They scoff at the very idea that we could love a person of the same gender. This backwoods prejudice coupled with bibliolatry is the justification they use for their silence and or outright support regarding policies that allow attacks and discrimination to escalate. Gay and Lesbian children in public schools and GLBT individuals in all walks of life are just not going to take this anymore.
We are not standing idly while these fake Christians hide behind the skirts of the religion industry. It’s time that all religions embrace the maker’s message of radical inclusion and until they do, in my opinion, the Church, Mosque, Synagogue and Temple steps are covered in our blood. Welcome to the fight. Welcome to our hopes and dreams.
Hugs,
Peter Godbold
Congrats to Larue on a first zed ever!
CTuttle @ 9
Hey, thanks. Kinda dropped the ball a little on the last one… Filling in for TRex and Digby is a tall order!
Oh yeah.
The brand new 600 million dollar US embassy in Iraq is in crisis because it is staffed with underqualified young Goodlings who know only how to praise Lord Bush as opposed to do an actual job.
Ryan Crocker is panicking about it.
-GSD
Plus, TRex, our darling Ann Outhouse was miffed because Glenn Greenwald wasn’t attacking women! She wanted some too.
TexB @ 11
TexBetsy! Welcome to the Lake!
Bob in HI
*SUPERSTAR!*
[/Mary Catherine Gallagher]
TexB, I’ve been away a little – I’m assuming you’re Aunt Betsy?
Alicia @ 12
Will that line be in any of your upcoming songs? *g*
… waves from Toronto …
Alicia @ 23
Yes indeed. Welcome back.
TRex @ 8
How long before we find out this guy is another Mark Foley/Ted Haggard/add any Repugnant’s name ?
Richard Ben-Veniste reminding us that the Supreme Court that ruled against Nixon on a Watergate matter had 4 justices that he had appointed on it.
So much of what they are saying about Watergate echoes with resonance today.
Bob in HI
DB,
You did a great job.
And yes, wow…That Ace guy’s a nut.
Where’s Looseheadprop? I know that she asked us to watch for government letterhead on Libby letters, but I miss her!
TexB @ 16
I said this last night and will say it again … this is the equivalent of the civil rights movement for this generation … the other western democracies are shaking their heads in disbelief that America can claim to lead the world, yet be so far behind in this human rights issue.
LooHoo, I think LHP is currently in trial.
I gotta admit, I really liked that “ancestral vow of vengeance against asphalt” ender.
The first time. Finding out he’s using it again, it’s like he tripped over one really nice construction and he’s coasting on it. Bleh.
Loo Hoo. @ 29
Weren’t you going to sleep? *g*
Woodward funny: Responding to Joan Hoff, a history professor, who was trying to talk about Nixon’s best work:
“Its like the Captain of the Titanic who said, except for the iceberg, it was a great cruise!”
Bob in HI
Petrocelli @ 30
You’re a credit to your nation.
Bob Schacht @ 27
Nixon was a two-bit crook and liar, in comparison to this Maladministration! We recovered from Nixon in relatively short order, as opposed to what we face ahead of us from Shrub’s misdeeds!!!
TRex @ 22
I saw her once at a Starbucks!
newtonusr @ 35
Thank you … I like to think that I am a reflection of my nation …
This is the usual pattern with Ace. He’ll say something outrageous and bigoted, then when SadlyNo or you or whoever starts mocking him about it, he or his minions will claim it was all a joke, which is now on those mocking him. See the “Playdoh and bacon” episode. He is not affected by such mockery.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Petrocelli, I was just saying goodnight to the sleepers. I rarely say goodnight cuz I might not actually do it, even when I know darn well I should! *G*
Methinks Ace has a ‘hankering’.
Pillows beware
;>)
DB, foggy tonight but it is expected to heat up around the Monterey Bay this weekend.
Petrocelli @ 38
And don’t feel bad about Canada not getting more Stanleys – We stole the game, trashed it. Bettman!
darkblack @ 41
Cucumbers beware.
CTuttle @ 36
Unfortunately we didn’t really recover from Nixon in short order. He left us with Dick Cheney and a bunch of others who held a revival under Ronny Raygun, and reappeared again in the administration of Bush II.
Bob in HI
Finally have a little time off on a very busy week, and where do I go? To read TRex! Good stuff.
darkblack @ 41
Agreed. You don’t go off on something so strongly and so often unless you scare yourself.
Ed*ard Teller @ 46
How did the dock and kayak building go today?
ET, TRex stuff is of the finest kind. (waving)
In grad school there was a prof who liked to quote from a novel (to make a philosophical point). The quote (very roughly) “when you kiss a woman- you are sucking on the end of a twenty foot tube- and the other end is filled with shit”
Suzanne, I like it.
Loo Hoo. @ 40
My bad … glad you’re still around though, I laughed a lot at your “Sanatarium” crack in the last thread.
Where’s demi tonight … ain’t it funny how you get used to some people so quickly ?
Hey ET,
I noticed Al Gore acknowledged Murray Gell-Mann in his new book. (Although I think he left an ‘n’ off Mann)
Pet, I think demi said she was camping or some such. Which reminds me, I haven’t gotten any answers to the questions I left for Issa. Guess I’ll have to send a little reminder tomorrow.
Loo
Did you see Issa?
TRex @ 44
Another romantic evening of Jergens and gherkins, manfully watching the gardening shows for some hot trowel-on-dirt action.
;>).
rw, I saw Phil Paule, his “district director” for a couple of hours along with demi. He was going to get back to me on four questions he didn’t know the answers to, but apparently he forgot.
I like the whole “liberals are soft” chatter that comes from the right.
I kinda think that the decadence of excessive wealth has caused a lot more “softness” in America than any bike riding, patchouli wearing hippy could ever bring about.
You’d think that Dennis Koslowski’s $7,000.00 shower curtains were the acme of rugged manliness.
-GSD
Loo- Was it worth doin?
Loo Hoo. @ 54
Camping? I hope she doesn’t ruin those gorgeous nails !!! *g*
Must suck being the Ace.
Half the world thinks he’s a pathetic dweeb.
The other half thinks he’s a self-hating closet case.
Wonder which half is right.
Oh, wait: those aren’t mutually exclusive.
Think Progress has a Robert Greenwald video up on the kicking out of gay and lesbian translators along with a petition if you haven’t seen it yet.
http://thinkprogress.org/
darkblack @ 56
Is that what you call … a pickle tickle ?!! *g*
Nice pictures of the George and Laura show- here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Loo Hoo. @ 48
Hiya, Loo Hoo, Suzanne,
I’m building a dock for my mosquito fleet – the kayak is already built. Actually, I’m building two floats. Docks don’t float, they’re structures built on pilings or along a shore.
A small float will connect to the ramp coming down from the beach. A fairly large – 10′ x 16′ – float will go outside the small float. A couple of stainless steel pins will connect them. If I disconnect the pins, I’ll be able to turn the large float into a mobile float. We’ll be able to put a small electric motor on one end and take it out into the center of the lake when it is nice, to sunbathe, swim, have a BBQ, play music to the birds who so kindly serenade us.
I’m staring at a sander on the top of the float. It is staring back….
Bob Schacht @ 45
Rummy too! I guess they merely hibernated!!! 8-)
Going to try to sleep. Several students coming tomorrow before noon so I can’t stay up all night.
Hasta mañana.
“You want dudes to shank you up your manpooters, fine…, blah, blah, blah
To misquote James Michener, where do we get such men?
It’s depressing to realize how many of them there are out there.
rw, yes it was worth it. He at least knew that there were people in the district outside of his base. Let me know if you wanna have a chat with Bilbray’s folks. It was fun, actually. But as I said, there were questions that he was uncomfortable answering without speaking with the Issa first.
Y’all are making it very difficult for me to be a good parent tonight. Man-Cub (age 13) wants to know what I’m laughing about. I’m not ready to have that conversation yet.
burnspbesq @ 70
Good call.
“Cheney’s getting a new pacemaker.
Doctors say Cheney will be up and
sneering in no time.”
— David Letterman
Night all.
-GSD
Loo Hoo. @ 62
I saw one of those ex- servicemen on T.V. commenting on his discharge,
saying it would be horrific for Bush and friends if a gay translator
saved America from a terrorist attack … loosely quoted …
Got my copy of Dr. Hillhouse’s OutSourced today. Getting a book in the mail makes me feel like it is my birthday, or Christmas. Forced myself to wait until I walked home before I opened up the mailing container.
Am loving it. Had to force myself to put it down to get to the Lake (barely) on time.
Loo- what are the questions he couldn’t answer?
“How many heads does the congressman have”?
Ed*ard Teller @ 65
Does that discourage the mosquitos?
The more you stare at the sander, the more it stares at you.
Ed*ard Teller @ 65
… sending an ice cold Leffe your way …
downunder girl @ 39
gah, lol. “Playdoh and bacon”. I’ve not paid attention to the Ace’s sally but his understanding on H.R. Geiger is as inept as his interpretation of Greenwald’s piece. Ace’s subjectivity is telling.
Petrocelli @ 63
Perhaps some delicious Manroot will satisfy his cravings.
;>)
Dover Bitch @ 53
Cool. If I ever have time again, I’ll read his book. Gell-Mann is the only important physicist to name a major discovery after a line from Finnegan’s Wake – “”Three quarks for Muster Mark!” He’s on my top 20 people I’d sit and listen to for hours and hours list.
If there is in fact anyone who has sexual contact with Mr. Ace, I pity them, for he clearly is possessed of a grade-schooler’s notion of sexuality.
Peace. To all. Even the jerks. Maybe it would help them be kinder.
As for me with a broken air conditioner — time to try and ignore the heat and sleep. Too bad Texas homes don’t have basements.
No rest, ET! Sounds like a party float. Will you decorate it for homecoming?
And now for something COMPLETELY different:
JERUSALEM (AP) — Three-century-old manuscripts by Isaac Newton calculating the exact date of the apocalypse, detailing the precise dimensions of the ancient temple in Jerusalem and interpreting passages of the Bible — exhibited this week for the first time — lay bare the little-known religious intensity of a man many consider history’s greatest scientist.
Newton, who died 280 years ago, is known for laying much of the groundwork for modern physics, astronomy, math and optics. But in a new Jerusalem exhibit, he appears as a scholar of deep faith who also found time to write on Jewish law — even penning a few phrases in careful Hebrew letters — and combing the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel for clues about the world’s end.
The documents, purchased by a Jewish scholar at a Sotheby’s auction in London in 1936, have been kept in safes at Israel’s national library in Jerusalem since 1969. Available for decades only to a small number of scholars, they have never before been shown to the public.
In one manuscript from the early 1700s, Newton used the cryptic Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the apocalypse, reaching the conclusion that the world would end no earlier than 2060.
“It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner,” Newton wrote. However, he added, “This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail.”
Cujo359 @ 76
TRex @ 81
Why, you’d think there’d be people all over who are looking for a spirited jackhammering.
rwcole @ 75
Here are the thing he had not a clue as to how Issa felt/believed:
Habeas Corpus
Permanent bases in Iraq
Trade/debt with China
Blackwater
GSD @ 72
Too funny! Nighters.
Loo
Sorry I missed the Issa meeting- I was out of town for my mother’s birthday. Did you learn anything surprising about Issa’s position?
V-8, V-12 – talk about confused sexuality.
I think what Ace is looking for is something a little more hybrid, if you take my meaning.
Loo Hoo. @ 83
The float was everybody in the family’s idea but mine. “We’ll help, dad – puleeeeeze!” Yeah, sure. The sander is staring at me while the kids and Ms ET are watching Seinfeld re-runs…
But now that I’m making the thing, builder’s pride is trumping all.
LooHoo, I’m sure you and Demi will be holding Issa’s feet to the fire, demanding answers to your questions.
Only benefit of having a jerk for a congresscritter is being able to yank on their chain.
In Ace’s case, I suspect it’s more of a tack-hammering.
rwcole @ 84
Similarly, the Mayan calendar ceases Dec. 21, 2012!!! They were extraordinary astronomers and mathematicians!!! Pretty chilling, if you ask me!!!
burnspbesq @ 70
My girls are a few years junior and we’ve already had the conversation … some kids in their class were making disparaging remarks about teh gay and they had questions, which I answered quite fittingly. My older kid told all her friends what I said and they all agreed to stop any and all insults.
If you haven’t seen Freedom Writers, I recommend it highly.
Oh, good, I won’t have to Christmas shop that year.
Seems to me Ace’s thesaurus access should be revoked.
“Similarly, the Mayan calendar ceases Dec. 21, 2012!!!”
According to my congressman, that’s because in 2011 the last the Mayans will have immigrated to Escondido.
That’s because on Dec. 22nd, 2012, The Mayan Centerfold Calendar comes out !!! *g*
Isn’t an asteroid supposed to swing by in 2029 or something?
Petrocelli @ 99
Everybody’s a comedian, tonite!!! :P
sander staring at me… (facebook membership rqd.)
Ed*ard Teller @ 102
How did the ‘board’ meeting go???
CTuttle @ 101
… if I had a nickel for every doomsday prediction …
Look away, ET, or else the sander will have you in its clutches.
Did you just take that? Is it still that light out?
dang
rwcole @ 89
Perhaps that he’s really really REALLY interested in civil rights (what with being part Lebanese and all). But no hope for the terrorists in Guantanamo, they deserve no rights.
Dover Bitch @ 100
In the year 2525.
Patrick 4/4- ack earworm warning should have been posted
Suzanne @ 108
My older sister had the 45 – I’m stuck with it and had to share.
TRex, I wouldn’t have thought you a last minute Christmas shopper what with the internets.
Suzanne @ 105
yes and yes. CTuttle – we don’t do much, but what we do, we do well.. People always confuse the organization’s goal of encouraging rational land use planning with environmentalism, which is inaccurate.
Loo Hoo. @ 106
Lebanese eh ?
Hmmm … guess that’s why he was for invading Araq
Dover Bitch @ 100
Asteroids and large meteoroids swing by all the time. A tiny minority are predicted. Anyone notice how many comets are brand-new, named after their 15-year-old discoverer in Australia or the Hebrides or somewhere? It is a jungle out there, which might be part of why the Mayans were such superb astronomers.
Araq. Ayuck.
LooHoo, I got a new pic of Token, the cutest dog in the world up over at my place.
Un-fucking-believable, that Ace. Just Ace-tastic
Ed*ard Teller @ 113
I meant a big one that’s supposed to swing below our communications satellites… possibly to return a short while later to smack us.
(waving to TSF)
Here’s Eric Boehlert’s response to Cohen’s free Libby article in the WaPo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..20729.html
Dover Bitch @ 117
Yeah, that one. I’ll tell the kids and grand-kids.
Loo Hoo. @ 114
Don’t you like it?
Mmm mmmm … I have it at my Lebanese friend’s house … with Kebabs, Baba Ghanoush and the best Hummus in the world. Of course, you need one of these as well … *g*
Suzanne @ 115
Token is the cutest dog north of Anaheim, fer sure. But that little first grader? Cuter still!
Dover Bitch @ 117
To paraphrase Rummy; “…it’s the unknown unknowns…”, with that, I bid ya’ll a fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!! :-)
Petrocelli @ 121
Damn! I was hoping you’d link to a picture of this fine Lebanese winemaker’s stuff.
Petrocelli @ 121
Okay, I’ll try the Araq on your recommendation only, and part two, yes! Tell us about Baba Ghanoush, please. Does it put a spell on you?
aw, shucks, thanks LooHoo. You gonna put up a LooHoo pic on your facebook?
Cindy LooHoo that is.
CTuttle @ 123
G’nite Buddy !!!
Suzanne @ 126
I have to have daughter with camera help. I am technologically *special*. I will get this all figured out! I need to buy a camera for YK2…
Ed*ard Teller @ 124
Shhh … we don’t want too many people knowing about that … *g*
g’nite CT
Dover Bitch @ 117
DB, this is probably the one you’re thinking of:
Asteroid MN-4 to pass by on April 13, 2029
and estimated return trip same day
1 year later (w/in orbit of moon & tech satellites,
as NEO but no impact predicted)
I’ve always been fond of the Mayan prediction, if for no other reason, the (mental) image of the galactic alignment.
I know everyone’s going to want to get in on the birthday present for George Bush. He’s turning 61! Just send in $61 to the RNC. What could possibly be easier?
http://politicalticker.blogs.c…..hday-cash/
Loo Hoo. @ 125
Baba Ghanoush for you, my dear one !!!
It’s made with Eggplant, onions, garlic, tahini and lemon juice, topped with a healthy layer of Olive Oil and eaten with pieces of Pita.
As for Araq, please drink it slowly, it is very potent !!!
LooHoo. Issa was handed his ass recently on the floor. The Rs were proposing numerous amendments to a bill – to muddy the water and run the clock. The Chair was routinely waiving both reading and discussion of amendments till Issa was up (he had been acting like an interruptive kid). Issa requested waiver of reading. Chair ordered reading anyway. Clerk stated he couldn’t read the proffered amendment as it wasn’t an amendment at all, just a copy of the hearing agenda. Everyone just rolled on as if it hadn’t happened.
LooHoo, I got my personally signed invite to donate from Pickles delivered by the GOP in my email. I get all the GOP propaganda.
Loo Hoo. @ 129
Hey Loo Hoo, how come you haven’t poked me as yet? *g*
I’m on Facebook as … Petrocelli.
TribeScribe @ 132
Yeah that’s it. I was right, 2029!
SunnyNobility @ 136
LOL !!!
Someone should tell his future opponent about this. He/she can request the video and run it continuously on TV during the campaign !!! *g*
tw3k @ 133
How did they predict the alignment?
Was it like the Jupiter Factor?
SunnyNobility @ 136
HA HA HA!
Ed*ard Teller @ 80
A mathematician friend of mine claims to have been the one who told Gell-Mann about special unitary groups, e.g., SU3.
Be sure to add that to your list, LooHoo, when you contact the rep about the answers to your earlier questions. Be sure to ask about Issa’s reasoning behind such behavior (what’s the point of having a stir stick if ya don’t use it now and then)
Boticelli?
Good idea, Suzanne!!!
Your daughter, by the way, is a beauty too!
Suzanne,
Re the brightness here this late in the evening, I’ll try to take set of pics at midnight on the solstice, so you can get a fair idea of optimum summer night light at 61 degrees north. Between now and then, the days change little, but it is fairly cloudy this evening and Summer solstice is predicted to be fairly clear, which will make it far brighter.
Sweet, ET – I’m gonna look forward to that pic.
Thanks, LooHoo, she is my first born and pretty special in her own right. I’m very proud of Jen.
SunnyNobility,
You don’t remember the name or number of the bill do you? Or what is was about? Thanks.
Loo Hoo. @ 145
Si, senora/senorita !!!
Petrocelli @ 141
Beats me. wikipedia says they liked Venus.
Petrocelli @ 150
Well, then, you’ve been poked! Wanna be my friend? I only have Suzanne and LL.
tw3k @ 151
Some time ago, all 9 planets aligned in a cosmic single line. It had been told that this would cause disastrous effects to gravity and the planets would be thrown into different axes (plural of axis?) It was to be the end of the world, IIRC Mohammed Ali was on TV, endorsing the view and Nostradamus had apparently predicted this as the doomsday.
wigwam @ 143
My math got no further than trig in HS. I’ve read Hawken’s “A Brief History…” twice now, and get it a little better than complex philosophical tomes like Sartre’s “Being and Nothingness,” but the Lie Algebra underlying unitary group theory and Gell-Mann matrices almost breaks on through to the other side for me. I can look at those formulae, stand back about five feet from a page of them, and, and, and…
still working on it.
Loo Hoo. @ 152
Oooh, yes please … me an’ 3 lovely ladies … and they say dreams never materialize … *g*
My sister said the world was going to end in 1972. She learned this from Jehovah.
Petrocelli @ 138
Plain ol’ Petrocelli? There are a bunch of Petrocelli’s on FB
LooHoo, you gotta post your facebook link so everyone can add ya to their friends.
Boticelli, Bob. But type in Petrocelli, and it’s our friend!
Suzanne @ 158
How? I thought I was all fancified by adding a picture…
Petrocelli @ 153
heh, well he was a good boxer *g
LooHoo, go to your facebook page… cut the gobbity gook http stuff at the top of your facebook page into the submit comment box on this page – like any other link.
Loo Hoo. @ 159
Got it.
Bob in HI
http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=terry loo hoo olson
I invite facebook friends!
Thanks, Suz.
Loo Hoo. @ 156
A couple of friends(Indians) recently joined the Jehovah’s Witness, which prompted my smartass comment,
“What … Hinduism didn’t have enough Gods for you?”
Everyone, including them laughed and they’ve never felt estranged from their circle of friends since.
tw3k @ 133
2012 is also the peak of solar sunspot activity for the Sun’s 11-year cycle.
Although Venus alignment may act as a ‘circuit breaker’ of sorts.
RE: Venus
Interesting weather and historic patterns associated with Venus alignment.
End of the Fifth Sun (Venus info starts 2 para above pic)
2012 signals the beginning of new 13,000 year cycle.
Dire predictions aside, that in itself is a pretty big deal.
As a good friend once said, maybe the calendar just starts over?
Here is the link all prettied up, Terry LooHoo Olsen. Ya’ll need to add LooHoo to your friends on Facebook.
I was watching Discovery Science Channel last night and they were showing a new series about time – Earth time, human time. Pretty darn interesting if you can get it on the reruns this weekend.
Bob Schacht @ 163
Whew, I have been poked many times tonight and am all tuckered out. *g*
G’nite all !!!
g’nite petrocelli
Night, Pet. Thanks for the food and drink ideas.
Time for me to crawl into bed with my copy of OutSourced. G’nite all.
NBC may be courting Jon Stewart:
http://www.broadcastingcable.c…..52696.html
Nite Suz. Me too.
LooHoo, I was afraid you might ask…
Probably something I was half watching in the middle of the night. Can’t even recall who was presiding and called his bluff. Only reason I noticed at all is because Issa was being obnoxious and the process itself seemed a monumental waste of time. It was within the last week or so. I’ll try to refresh my memory from the C-SPAN schedule.
TribeScribe @ 166
Good stuff, I’ll read through it. I always wondered if there is a correlation with magnetic reversal.
Thanks, Sunny.
The duodenum is not at risk from anything coming up the… um, drop pipe, no matter how massive that organ is imagined to be. The duodenum is located just below the stomach, and it is where much of the digestion takes place.
Good morning, pups. Today the NYT serves up Bobo who delivers himself of thoughts on foreign policy. Bob Herbert is angry that children in this country stay sick because people care more about the bottom line than a life.
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
Coffee and tea are ready, and the Thomas’ English muffins are hot out of the toaster. Have a grand day.
Good Morning. Woke up to Scarborough saying that he believes in the Kissinger approach. If Cambodia is harboring our enemy, go in and bomb Cambodia. If the hippies burn cars, go in and beat them with batons. It was said around 6:25am for anyone who records these shows. I don’t know if he was being facetious. Missed the lead-in. But it creeped me out.
How prices have changed in six years… Jesus General has found a Good Deal.
Good morning pups!
Okay, I’ve had it. Now Scarborough’s into ‘if you can’t stand up to Fox news ..blah,blah,blah.’ Then praised Brit Hume and knocked John Edwards. Then showed pic of Hume and Edwards saying “who would you trust more….this guy or this guy?’
Showing his true colors today.
The media is killing the Edwards campaign. They either ignore him or mock him. I think that the right is afraid of him. Unfortunately, the media is very powerful in determining who will be the nominee. Edwards must figure out a way to get more coverage or he is doomed. And, he’s my choice.
Good Morning Kittehs & Pups!
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The Blogosphere: From Ideas to Action
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Bush is getting hammered by his base over immigration Bush’s father was hurt by his base because he raised taxes. I say the Democrats should get Bush to raise taxes on the rich or come up with his own funding proposal that is acceptable to Democrats to pay for his war. Or the troops can come home right now. That plus there better be some real progress by September (yeah right). Lets see if Bush is really ready to make a real sacrifice for his war. Or is he too scared of ending up like his father? Put the pressure on him seperate him from the 30%ers with the tax issue, put his greatest desire War in direct conflict with his greatest fear being like Daddy. Sure he will attack us guns blazing but he was going to do that anyway in September. If we choose a battlefield to our liking and not his (taxes for his war) we will be in control. Attacked from the outside by his base over the possibility of a tax increase and attacked from the inside by the conflict of desire vs fear I think we can break his mind. Yeah I know not much to break but by keeping him and his White House stressed he will start making mistakes we can exploit.
solai @ 183
Don’t worry about Joe there is no way he can replace Imus (who I admit I didn’t like) I’m betting his show flops compared to the ratings Imus used to get Joe being a bland rightwinger will probably be the reason given for the low ratings. I’m more worried if they get a competent rightwinger in his slot.
tw3k @ 176 is the earths magnetic poles in line with the suns assuming the sun has magnetic poles. I know that if 2 magnets are within reach of each others fields the opposite poles will line up together. Maybe we should watch for changes in the sun’s magnetic field to look for signs of our earth’s poles changing. But how do we tell if the sun’s magnetic field is going to flip watch the sun’s 22 year cycle magnetic flip? Why might this time be differnt? Will other planets with magnetic fields be aligned with earth at this time?
worth watching (~7mins)
Take Back America conference video
by The Albany Project
Andrea Batista Schlesinger
her segment of panel:
Our Time Has Come
(note: vid shaky at first but hang in there,
Hers is policy & snark par excellence!)
P.S.
Schlesinger is affiliated with the
Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (DMI)
“if you want to say I was a drum major
say I was a drum major for justice.”
~MLK, jr.
Richard Cohen just might win “Wanker of the Day” with this drivel.
He recites every “free poor Scooter” talking point, along with some special Richard Cohen inanity all his own.
I’ve been a satisfied customer of FDL for a long time (blogspot, anyone?), but I don’t think anal sex with jackhammers, whether they’re V8s, V12s, or turbocharged, is a worthy topic for this blog.
My beautiful mind has been “Sully-ed” by thoughts of duodenums and dorked up drop-pipes. For shame FDL. I thought this place was different. I guess not.
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ifthethunderdontgetya @ 191
Quick! Give Cohen an emergency dose of 500cc’s Arricept,
before we lose him forever.
Even in the annals of stupider-than-is-believable Richard Cohen columns, this is one for the ages.
On the one hand, we have people who cry bitterly that there is no free speech here. On the other hand we have people who argue that we are not restrictive enough in what we discuss.
Somewhere in there is a happy medium, and we do our best to provide a blog that meets a lot of different needs at different times of the day and night.
GSD @ 19
Praise the Lord and pass the burn bag.
morning all!
thank you, as always, Marion in Savannah @ 179 for the morning read.
OUCH ~ At least 61 killed, scores hurt in Baghdad blast. LINK
The Lurking Mod @ 194 –
i’d like to think that, unless stated otherwise, when a reader complains about a topic or the language used, it’s not to request censorship, but rather to express their “ewwww” response.
thank you lurking mod, and all mods. you-all do a great job that is much appreciated.
ymmv.
Dick Cohen has 19 pages of responses so far. Feel free to leave your thoughts here.
BTW, I think Dick has given us insight, albeit extremely gross to even contemplate, into why he is like he is. Check out the sentence from the end of the 2nd paragraph (would love to see TRex’s thoughts on this line!):
As with sex or real estate, it is often best to keep the lights off.
Another case of, “Dude, what world are you living in?!?” What a poor, poor man if that’s how he feels about sex. Explains everything. No wonder he likes cocktail weenies so much…
Lou Costello @ 197
my heart breaks for the people of baghdad.
someone is trying awfully hard to provoke further sunni-shia hostilities
bonkers @ 199
Not to mention, he includes politics in the list of things to be kept in the dark…showing he doesn’t really understand what a newspaper is supposed to do.
The Lurking Mod @ 194
Just to be clear, I was being a smart-ass with the concern trolling. Tone doesn’t always come across in the Toobz I guess…
Thanks to all the mods for keeping this place so tidy!
bonkers @ 199
There is a subtext to Cohen’s column, which of course he never mentions. Many months ago (I’m too lazy to dig out the link) Cohen tried to get Fitzgerald to comment on the investigation, and apparently Fitz had better things to do with his time. Cohen then ranted about this in his column.
Hell hath no fury like a pundit whose calls don’t get returned.
TRex:
But at least houseplants have enough sense to turn towards the light. No such intelligence evident in the Repubs.
solai @ 184
I agree totally and am similarly frustrated.
BTW, attendees @ TBA, there’s an Edwards event tonight. Only costs $15 to go. It’s at 5:45 in DuPont Circle (i.e. one block from Metro). “Small Change for Big Change.”
http://johnedwards.com/smallch…..70619-rsvp
Scarecrow upstairs on failed states.
allan_in_upstate @ 203
Interesting. I used to wonder if our esteemed punditocracy were in place specifically to sway the electorate in favor of mega-corporations. While this is true for many, some are just plain petty and dumb, like Cohen.
Maybe that’s what it is…the “liberal” pundits are the petty and dumb ones, while the really evil conglomerate cheerleaders and Constitution-haters are the “conservative” commentators. Hmmmm…
Greenwald’s rant said nothing about being gay. Yeesh. The wingnuts added that all on their own. How frightening that they can’t even see how delusional that is.
Plus, how pathetic to admit that they find Greenwald difficult to read. You would think that in a country where most folks can’t be bothered to learn a second language, they would at least take some pride in mastering their own tongue. Guess not.
The heart of their pathetic misunderstanding seems to be the ridiculous equation of gay with effeminate. Talk about doofuses who need to lose the jammies and get out of the house more often. But then these pootie heads are, by definition, NOT in the reality-based community.
And the only anotomical term that moron can come up with is – duodenum?
Glad to see Robert in Beirut point out the duodenum’s location, where stomach meets intestine. Not threatened by either oral or anal sex. Maybe belly button sex, with his teeny, tiny – never mind…
And you say Ace seems to spend much time navel gazing?
Ok, enough of this ticklish subject; back to lurk mode now.
I’m just blown away by the subtle Orwell headline. Way to go!!
PS – Anyone who want to know what real analysis & commentary was like, read the collected Essays, Letters, and Journalism of George Orwell. You’ll see that his fiction was an obvious, yet less impressive spinoff of his routine contributions.
Duodenum? Just how big a dick does Ace fantisize about?
Loo, Petro, Newton, and Suzanne~
I’m here.
God, it took so long for me to hook up with my late nite friends..
Dudettes and Dudes, I’ve been wanting all day to talk to you.
LS, Texb, Petro!…so many, plz don’t be offended…so many to love.
Can we late nite? Won’t be here long.
It’s just that you all at latenite talk to me and during the day, they don’t.
But, I won’t be here long and wanted to say that there is good news….
demi, you are on last nites thread.. we are over at janes thread.. trex hasn’t posted yet.. here is the link
Not to be too literal about the screed, but facts are stubborn things…and Ace’s gastrointestinal rant is beyond anatomically challenged. The duodenum is that part of the G.I. tract right below the stomach. It would require a quite long and serpentine male organ to reach the duodenum from below…even with the aid of a jackhammer.