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"For many whites the criminal and irresponsible black underclass represents a revival of barbarism in the midst of Western civilization." (Dinesh D'Souza, The End of Racism)
Okay, let me see if I can get this straight. Dinesh D'Souza's new book, What's So Great About Christianity (Regnery, of course) is an attempt to use Anselm's Ontological Argument to prove the existence of a Talibangelical God.
Bonus stupid: D’Souza uses the tail end of his written frottage of Hitchens to defend Anselm’s ontological argument. While there may be some versions of the ontological argument that are not pure, refined stupid, Anselm’s is not one of them. Every first year philosophy student I’ve known has used it to prove the existence of the perfect martini or the perfect significant other. I suppose you could even use it to prove the existence of the perfect Muslim….just don’t do that in front of D’Souza. You’ll hurt his feelings.
Um, so, the existence of God. This is a question that has been wrestled with by the greatest minds in human history, all the way back to the night mankind first came out of our caves and threw rocks at the moon.
I really don't think that a mental midget like Dinesh ("The Muslims hate us because we don't hate the fags and feminists enough!") D'Souza is going to pull the answer to that particular conundrum out of his spoiled, skinny ass. Call me crazy, but that seems about as likely as Sean Hannity's Let Freedom Ring winning the Nobel Prize for literature.
Well, you can't say that Wingnut Welfare Queens lack ambition. It's just the follow-through that seems to shoot them out of the sky every single time.
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TRex!!!
Zed
Dinesh D’Souza. Not a great advertisement for an Ivy League education.
Follow through - they shoot themselves in the foot, every fucking time.
Let’s hear it for religious liberals! The righties don’t own God or religion.
Dinesh D’Loser.
-GSD
let downstairs know please
Ocho?
Suzanne @ 7
just did
Honey, I’m home!
thanks tex
thank goodness, trex - i was stuffing my face with ice cream downstairs
GSD @ 6
Excellent as always, GSD !
…so now, MSMTV is going to put this idiot on every talk show to spew his verbal garbage. Please, spare us!
Gotta go.
Sleep well pups.
-GSD
TRex @ 10
Oh, thank goodness, I NEVER know where you are…
I can’t wait for the release of TRex’s new book:
What’s so great about D’Souza?
Suzanne @ 4
Absolument !
Denial D’Lusional
“The Virtue of Prosperity,” eh? That’s one of his books?
Talibangelical, indeed.
night GSD.
Who actually buys their drivel…???
TRex @ 18
poifect
CTuttle @ 21
Um … apparently … 24% of Americans … *g*
CTuttle @ 21
wingnut welfare organizations - also known as right wing think tanks - they buy em up and then try to give them away - will little success i might add - they even fuck that up
CTuttle @ 21
Their moms.
And conservative book clubs buy their stuff by the pound to give away for free as books of the month, which in turn artificially inflates sales figures and pushes them up the NYT bestseller list, etc., etc….
Petrocelli @ 23
I bet they rig that poll too.
Hey hackworth,
I’m not blowing off your question from the last thread. It’s just that my views on whether health care is inherently a public good (or, alternatively, is a good that can be most efficiently delivered by an appropriately regulated market, which the current market clearly is not) are difficult to explain without at least 5,000 words of microeconomics and public choice theory. I don’t think of that issue in “liberal” vs. “conservative” terms (assuming, for the sake of argument, that either of those terms has a determinate meaning any more).
The closest thing to a meaningful sound-bite that I could come up with is “I don’t think the case for single-payer has been made to my satisfaction.”
D’Sheeeeeeeesh D’Yowza!
TexBetsy @ 26
Dunno, it has a plus/minus margin of 25% … *g*
I have often wondered why wingers never doubt themselves despite their record of being essentially 100% wrong on every issue since the beginning of time? Have we not come to a point in our nation’s history that we can no longer afford the luxury of indulging them anymore?
If only his mother hadn’t chosen to procreate with D’Dimest D’Suitors we could have avoided all this.
persiflage @ 31
LOL … in fine form again …
Thanks Petro. How is life in your far-flung corner of the Commonwealth?
Has anyone heard from DownUnder Pete lately?
Oh, and HEY, TECHNICOLOR YAWN! Where you been?
persiflage @ 33
Now, that’s funny: an Aussie talking about someone else living in a far-flung corner of the Commonwealth.
persiflage @ 31
Unsafe Sects leads to Electile Dysfunction.
TRex, petedownunder was on after you went to bed last night.. on the sleeping train thread
burnspbesq @ 35
If you think of Britain as the centre of the Commonwealth, cause that’s where the Queen lives, then Petro and I are both far-flung.
TRex @ 34
Mostly lurking. I check in multiple times daily. I love this site.
(valiantly tries to cover yawn) well, time for bed, this cold is getting the best of me. Good night, pups, remember, our FDL Libras totally rule!
persiflage @ 33
The Bad … we’re in a slow. inevitable march to Winter.
The Good … it’s Hockey Season !!! *g*
TRex @ 25
Then, where, to prop up furniture…???
TRex @ 34
No, I haven’t heard from Pete in a while, don’t even know which continent he’s on at the moment.
sleep well farm girl
newdealfarmgrrrlll @ 40
G’ nite NDFG and thanks for the treats !
I’m out as well, Love & Hugs to all !
Petro, i remember winter. Here we’re back to 80’s and 90’s.
After Gasking:
1) Any book written by Dinesh D’Souza is the most marvelous achievement imaginable.
2) The merit of a book is the product of (a) its intrinsic quality, and (b) the ability of its author.
3) The greater the disability (or handicap) of the author, the more impressive the achievement.
4) The most formidable handicap for an author would be non-existence.
5) Therefore, Dinesh D’Souza does not exist.
thanks for the icecream, ndfg - sleep well
Petrocelli @ 45
Nite, Petro and New Deal!!!
You know, if you stare into the guy in the last post’s eyes in the photo long enough, Bloody Mary appears at the heart of each pupil.
You can use Anselm’s argument to prove that the universe is controlled by a blue dwarf. I did this once as an undergrad in a paper for a Catholic theologian teaching a philosphy course. I got a C. When I asked him why, he said there was nothing wrong with the paper. He just didn’t like the conclusion.
g’nite pet (and all others leaving i may have missed)
who is surprised?
Abbas says Israel blocking peace
from AL JAZEERA
Rice leaves region with little progress made between Israelis and Palestinians.
Petrocelli @ 41
Ah and for us :
The Bad … ah, well, you kmnow, there must be something bad …
The Good : it’s spring
The Excellent : Election on 24 November.
TRex @ 50
whatever you are smoking - share
TexBetsy @ 53
That whole frantic peace mission on her part had the feeling of a doctoral student whose oral defense is coming up and she’s realized that all her library books are overdue.
Hugh @ 51
The universe is most certainly not controlled by a blue elf. It was created and is controlled by the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I know, for I have been touched by his noodly appendage (don’t ask me where, it’s private. I just wish it would happen again!).
TexBetsy @ 53
So her legacy still only involves something to do with shoes.
TRex @ 56
When does she realize she’d like to drop out and let a student who cares about this class take her place?
persiflage @ 54
who will scrutinize the scrutineers?
i worry.
Condi and my best friend share a religion: the’re both shoeish
Hugh @ 58
Well, to be completely fair, I gather that they are rather expensive shoes. That should count for something.
persiflage @ 61
sole-less?
may @ 63
A couple of real heels?
When I see media of Condi walking, I get that Wicked Witch Of The West music from the Wizard of Oz running through my head.
may @ 60
Let’s see, election called on Sunday 14th Oct until election Nov 24. 42 days. 4 days gone, leaves another 38 days that I will worry. From my first glance at the news headlines to the moment I lay my weary head on the pillow at night, I worry. Everytime Kevin behaves like a priss (didja see him blast the Chaser for being, err, the Chaser?), I worry. Every slight change in the polls, I worry. By the time actually scrutineering comes along, I’ll either be a quivering wreck sucking my thumb in the corner of the room or I’ll be much too drunk to worry. At least I’m in a safe Labor electorate. Which electorate are you in May?
Evening.
Hippity hopping over to Regnery’s web site - so you don’t have to.
Back soon.
don’t click here
Nah, more like a pair of mules.
Phew! Just saw the new issue of the newsletter that everyone in my arcane little branch of tax law reads, in which I am quoted a number of times, and it appears that I managed to not say anything stupid on the record.
I just wanna pump you up.
Hugh @ 64
I hear they carry stilettos
It figures that Condi would be down at heel. Bush is a loafer and Cheney is a sneaker.
want a laugh? (empty mouth before continuing)
Lynne Cheney wants a leader in the ‘the Dick Cheney mold.’
from Think Progress by Amanda
In an interview with the Associated Press today, Lynne Cheney indicated that the thought of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) as president makes her feel “uncomfortable.” She added that she wishes the senator were more like Vice President Cheney:
I kind of like politicians that are more in the Dick Cheney mold, who say what they mean and mean what they say.
Most Americans don’t agree. Just 23 percent approve of the job Cheney is doing.
congrats burns.
TRex @ 72
And David Addington is the pair of gym socks that Cheney wore every day for six years and never washed.
I think it is a given that Lynne Cheney’s shrink would need a shrink.
That’s like Mary Todd Lincoln saying that she would be “uncomfortable” at a play where no one actually gets shot.
Rep. Don Young spent another $184,000 for legal fees…
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/30291
If there were a most perfect island, it would be inhabited by a Thesaurus Rex. And, since an inhabited island is more perfect than a deserted island, it must be inhabited. thus TRex exists. If there were a Thesaurus Rex, it would be a most perfect writer. And since a writing Rex is more perfect than writer’s block, then TRex exists.
the Dick Cheney mold? Can you get rid of that with Tilex?
Or something.
Bush: ‘I don’t remember what I was doing in 1981.’
from Think Progress by Faiz
In an attempt to decipher President Bush’s views on the recent Israeli airstrike inside Syria, NBC White House correspondent David Gregory asked the president at a press conference this morning whether he agreed with Israel’s decision to bomb the Osirak nuclear facility near Baghdad in 1981. Bush responded:
Ah, Dave, you know I don’t remember what I was doing in 1981. I was living in Midland, Texas. I don’t remember my reaction that far back.
Watch it:
Screenshot
To refresh Bush’s memory, in 1981, his twin daughters Barbara and Jenna were born. His father was vice president of the United States. And Bush was struggling as the head of a failing oil exploration company called Arbusto. The Washington Post reports:
Arbusto’s balance sheets showed that at the end of 1981, it had little more than $48,000 in the bank and more than half of all its assets consisted of “accounts receivable,” money owed to it by others. At the same time, the company owed almost $300,000 in bank loans and close to $120,000 to other creditors.
At that time, Bush received an infusion of cash from a number of sources, including from longtime friend James R. Bath who was handling the finances for the bin Laden family.
Ga @ 79
IHOP.
Therefore I am.
TexBetsy @ 73
And Mrs. Cheney continued, “Listen, this job of
leading the nationfollowing the leader of the nation requires an obsidian-black, steel-hard heart. And Dick’s your man. Hillary just doesn’t make the cut.”burnspbesq @ 69
Yes, congrats from me too.
CTuttle @ 78
Circumstantial evidence?
TexBetsy @ 82
I love how he just considers it standard operational procedure that a president should be completely ignorant of world events prior to his ascension to office.
Dickhead.
If God exists,
There is no separation from God.
If God created the Universe, then the Universe is of God, and the Universe is God.
Therefore, if God exists — whatever and whenever someone hates, they hate the creation of God that is God.
When Dinesh hates — Dinesh hates God . . .
just to be clear here, we’re talking about the man who wrote “The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and its Responsibility for 9/11″…. basically, he lost his brain cells while overimbibing as a Dartmouth undergrad, and now insists on inflicting his debilities on the rest of us. Ugh.
way to go burns… and don’t worry, if ya did make any errors, all your friends and cohorts will be sure to point them out to you (ducking)
-ck- @ 88
exactly
Right, then. Off to bed.
Therapy in the morning. Mustn’t be late.
TexBetsy @ 5
Nor does Christianity.
g’nite trex
night T
Heresy!!!
Chuck Grassley (the ranking Republican on Senate Finance) actually said on Wednesday that he could accept an increase in the top marginal individual income tax rate as an offset for the permanent repeal of the AMT.
Gotta give the heretics some love.
hey et…
persiflage @ 66
i haven’t a radio or tv and get the morloch rag to compare with online news(and the crossword and sudoku).
everyone i have spoken to knows how they will vote and regards the run up to the election as an imposition an bludy nuisance.the hoo hah does nothing for either party.howard is a dead duck if interest rates rise(Melbourne Cup day)
frank luntz’ appearance made me worry about the voting mechanism.on a thread a little while back some one described a postal vote delay that sounded exactly the same as what happened in Qld in the last fed election.
burnspbesq @ 96
can ya translate that please
We could switch to Descartes. If Dinesh thinks, then he exists, but since he doesn’t think, he doesn’t exist.
TRex @ 68
all arse?
burnspbesq @ 86
Crew has awarded him the most corrupt critter…
“He has been under federal investigation for his ties to Veco Corp., for fundraising activities and for his role in specific congressional earmarks, according to various media reports.”
How about his earmark after the bill had already passed out of Conference Committee and headed for Shrub’s signature…!!!
Suzanne @ 99
Grassley is willing to increase a tax on the rich to offset one that is increasingly affecting the middle class.
Hugh @ 103
GOOD!
Turkey Lawmakers OK Possible Iraq Attack
dang, a rethug wants this? is he up for re-election?
Funny post TRex, Jillian ices the cake on that one :D
Suzanne @ 106
Gooper or no, he’s a deficit hawk.
burnspbesq @ 80
Cheyne Finance halts payment
Sounds about right…Fourth Branch in-solvent…
i haven’t a radio or tv and get the morloch rag to compare with online news(and the crossword and sudoku).
everyone i have spoken to knows how they will vote and regards the run up to the election as an imposition an bludy nuisance.the hoo hah does nothing for either party.howard is a dead duck if interest rates rise(Melbourne Cup day)
frank luntz’ appearance made me worry about the voting mechanism.on a thread a little while back some one described a postal vote delay that sounded exactly the same as what happened in Qld in the last fed election.
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My first reaction on Sunday was : Oh God, six Fucking WEEKS! How the fuck am I going to last that long? On another serious tack, I’ve been watching Johnny closely lately. Do you reckon he’s had some ‘work’ done or had Botox injections? I swear he didn’t have that smooth skin when I first started hating him back in the 80s.
Suzanne @ 97
Hiya, Suzanne. What a birthday party, huh? I loved that page Kassie and Betsy made for you.
time to curl up with a bunch of pillows and try for sleep. accepting all wishes that include pain-free.
Suzanne @ 106
It’s Chuck Grassley we’re talking about here.. even if he sponsors the bill, he’ll contract Specteritis and vote against it on the floor
may @ 101
Followers of Imelda of the Eternal Espadrille and worshippers at the altar of the Manolo of Magnificence.
Board Allows Birth Control for Middle Schoolers
from NYT > Home Page by JOEL ELLIOTT
The Portland, Me., school board voted to allow middle-school students to gain access to prescription birth control medications without notifying parents.
pain free sleep wishes tex
TexBetsy @ 112
Best wishes.
TexBetsy @ 115
This bold move will be on the front page of the next FOTF newsletter.. should be good for mobilzing a few otherwise disheartened members of the rethug base
boosh’s family planning czar will put an end to that nonsense, tex - she says contraception promotes a culture of death according to KO
persiflage @ 110
DON’T WATCH!!!!
back away slowly.
political fascination syndrome is deadly to all forms of sanity and taste!
on top of that,it can take so much time out of your life that your beer turns (aargh)warm.
CTuttle @ 78
hey. speaking of which, how’s AGAG doing with that four-fig-an-hour criminal defense attorney he hired?
(sigh) only 6 weeks of politicing down under… i would be happy with just 6 months - 6 weeks would be just a pipe dream here in the states.
Al Jazeera (youtube)
The US, Israel and missiles - 17 Oct 07
ET, I’ve never had a birthday to top that (and that includes the party where I was the cake).
How is the weather up there tonight?
Suzanne @ 99
There is a thing called the Alternative Minimum Tax, that was put into the Internal Revenue Code in 1969 after Congressional hearings spotlighted a small number of high-income or high-net-worth individuals who paid no income tax. Over time, the combination of changes in the way AMT is computed and the fact that the threshold amounts for application of AMT are not indexed for inflation have turned it into a monster that capriciously hits millions of Americans without warning. It’s virtually impossible to know whether you’re going to get hit by AMT until you finish doing your return.
Everybody hates it, everybody knows it needs to be fixed or eliminated. The problem is that it raises huge amounts of revenue. I’ve seen estimates of the 10-year cost of repealing AMT that are as high as $2 trillion. Which means that everybody knows that you can’t just get rid of the AMT without making significant changes to the “regular” income tax.
And the additional fuckery factor is that for a variety of reasons, if you map the incidence of AMT, it hits more people who live in blue states than in red states, and hits them harder. So the Republicans have zero incentive to do anything about it.
Somehow, Grassley has escaped the mind control ray of the Grover the Bad. The fact that a senior Republican is talking about this kind of fundamental change in the tax system is really big news.
Suzanne @ 122
Yeah, but the phony campaign (Limbaugh would just hate it) has been going on for months now. The only thing limited to 6 weeks is the barrage of election advertising. Because Howard has had Bushtox injections, there’ll be loads of negative advertising too. And, as May has rightly pointed out, most Australians have already decided how we’re going to vote so we’ll either ignore the ads or get irritated by them. Advertising agencies and the media are the only winners. Just give me the frickin ballot paper NOW!
It is 46 outside - when I took Token for his nightly save the redwoods tree watering ritual, I saw my breath in the air - first time this fall. The smell of woodsmoke, the rat-a-tat-tat of the falling accorns - fall is officially here.
persiflage @ 126
mainly irritated.
especially when thinking of the public monies paying for it all.
With apologies to the Great Purple One from Minneapolis…
Let’s Blog Like it’s 1899!
Plans for Coal Power Plants Scrapped
Gee, the Wyoming lobby must be losing influence…
DON’T WATCH!!!!
back away slowly.
political fascination syndrome is deadly to all forms of sanity and taste!
on top of that,it can take so much time out of your life that your beer turns (aargh)warm.
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Happy I am to have met such a wise person. Although nobody has ever accused me of wasting good drinking time. In fact, Australian politics of the last 11 years has helped me to develop my prodigious drinking prowess. But you’re right, there’s real life outside politics, or so I’m told.
Eureka Springs @ 123
ES: I just got back from some biz in your area. Stayed in Bentonville but was able to get around a little (oddly enough, the work wasn’t Wal-Mart related). Wasn’t able to get to ES, but some pictures I saw in a travel mag of the area made it look really picturesque. Maybe next time.
Pleasantly surprised by the area, especially when I got out of WaltonWorld.
Quick trip to Regnery:
They claim to have had more NYT bestsellers than any other publisher of their size and they list them showing no. of weeks listed and top position.
They are a subsid. of Eagle Publishing, which also runs the conservative book club and rents mailing lists, their own and other “selected” organizations.
The conservative book club claims 80,000 members and sends 3 books for $1 each when you join. Ms Coulter is prominently featured as a favorite $1 book option.
All of their books are the same (expected) strong RW dung and most from the expected writers. A couple of outliers like Mark Furman.
No currently sitting politicians books are evident - they do publish Newt tho.
A LOT of their books only last on the NYT list for 1-3 weeks ????
Interestingly, hardcovers are priced c. $18 - way low in current market.
They only accept submissions from agents.
Thats all, I bailed fearing cooties.
smart move, sunnyn - best to run your ant*spyw*re software
Suzanne @ 124
It’s just under 40 degrees F. Partly cloudy, with no wind. It was nice today.
Just back from a rehearsal of my brass quintet (two trumpets, French horn, trombone and tuba). We met regularly for about three years from 2001 to 2004, then broke up except to play at a few close friends’ or thieir kids’ weddings. We’ve got extra people on all the instruments, so we can take breaks or meet even if somebody’s gone from town.
Our best tuba player is in London, our 2nd best in New England, so a friend I hadn’t seen in a year and a half showed up. He’s a Vietnam vet with PTSD. He was depressed and very obese last time I saw him. But he’s lost about 130 pounds, had great breath control on the tuba and wasn’t depressed. Great to see him.
Quick Sunny, run to the decontamination room this instant! There you will be bathed in warm liberalism and annointed with progressive essences. Breathe in the sweet aromas of kindness and decency while watching Al Gore celebrating his Nobel Prize on a continuous loop and listen to the best of your favorite music. An hour or so should do it, you brave soul.
that is good news indeed about your friend, et.
you are only slightly colder than i am right now et
bonkers, We are about 50 miles due east of Bentonville in a very special progressive nook. ES is also known as Little Switzerland by many. Next time you make it out this way do try to get to Fayetteville or ES for a much better take on NW AR.
Dear Mr. President,
Shove it up your a**.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10.....8bush.html
burnspbesq @ 139
Suz - here’s a couple of bucks for the jar…
What a piece of shit!
It’s 20 minutes to Thursday, and I have to be up and out early. Watch me go *poof*
Good night, everyone. Dream of the look on Bush’s face when the “ayes” are 290.
Eureka Springs @ 138
Definitely will, thanks. I actually spent most of the time Fayetteville and had a great time.
burnspbesq @ 139
from the link:
newton, by the time this clusterfuck of a presidency is done, i’m gonna need more swear jars
2008 mortgage originations to hit 8-year low: MBA
And that guy is a paid optimist!
Suzanne @ 144
I went to lawn and leaf bags years ago..)
Suzanne @ 137
It’s bumming ET, Jr. out, ’cause he wants the snowpack to get deeper up at Hatcher Pass, which is a half hour away from our place. Both Ms. ET and I now have some excellent new Nordic Skate skis, so I’m looking forward to a lot of snow. Up there, not here.
I don’t ski but I do lodge really well.
May, and anyone willing to venture into Oz Politics, you might enjoy this. Bennelong is the name of the electorate Howard represents, we’d get too confused if we used a number system like America.
I have no idea why I notice this (I’m no shoe hound), but Colbert is wearing brown shoes with a navy Blue suit.
newtonusr @ 150
must be what happens when the campaign consultants triangulate the wardrobe
newtonusr @ 150
tsk tsk tsk!
The title of this post: That’s one of the stranger sayings we have in America. Wonder how that one ever developed…
“You’re pulling my leg” or “Cat Got Yer Tongue” make some sort of sense, but “You’re shitting me….” Go figure…
bonkers @ 153
i believe the phrase originated in a double decker outhouse.
Suzanne @ 154
LOL!
my bold
Suzanne @ 154
HAHA! (ewww…)
Ed*ard Teller @ 147
I prefer Alpine skiing myself, I like taking a lift up the Mt… I’ve skied Banff/Lake Louise, numerous Colo. resorts, Killington VT/NH, Austrian and German Alps… *g*
OK, 4 refreshes with ‘No New Comments’ makes Persi a lonely girl. So it’s time to go and actually do something. Bye.
g’nite persi
burnspbesq @ 139
Deaer Mr. President,
Dude! You’re at 24%. Go pull weeds in Texas.
Suzanne @ 124
Suz, I missed your b’day party, so belated good wishes. The web page was a dandy and (margot’s?) picture wonderful.
thanks, sunny - i felt like i was spending my birthday with my family since i could not be with my family, i was partying with the fdl family, late nite branch.
From the BBC…
The Science Museum has cancelled a talk it was due to host by a geneticist, after he claimed black people were less intelligent than white people.
Dr James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for his part in discovering the structure of DNA, was due to speak at the venue on Friday.
But the museum has cancelled the event, saying Dr Watson’s views go “beyond the point of acceptable debate”.
Dr Watson has arrived in Britain to promote his latest book.
‘Cause controversy’
From the BBC…
In an interview with The Sunday Times, the 79-year-old said he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really”.
He went on to say he hoped everyone was equal but that “people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true”.
ok, that’s it for me tonight, pups *g’nite all*
Suzanne @ 164
Bonne nuit, Ma Cheri! I think I’ll join ya, Aloha Oe…!!! *g*
Gnight folks.. I’m going to ponder this quote while i doze off:
“I don’t find him particularly stable.”
- Senator Barbara Boxer, 10/17/07, on shrub
Persi, in the event you’re still here, thanks for the salubrious decontamination chamber. Sooo luxurious.
Uh, Therapod . .
Despite his ugly and obvious shortcomings as a real human, yer quote of him is kinda spot on and TRUE!!!
What were you thinking? That’s not a good setup . . . it’s TRUE!!!!
“For many whites the criminal and irresponsible black underclass represents a revival of barbarism in the midst of Western civilization.” (Dinesh D’Souza, The End of Racism)
Sure glad you segued offa THAT one in a hurry . . . but hoss, BAD set up, real, real bad . . . even the irony in it is lost . . .
neurophius @ 16
I dunna, but mixed with triple sec, and Rose’s Lime Juice, in a 3,2,1 pour shaken and strained into a sercvicable pre-chilled glass object, a good Souza product can provide most ENLIGHTENING thoughts and behaviors.
And yes, I DO speak with experience.
Although I prefer Hornito’s.
And then, THIS Larue calls them (trademark) Pita Rita’s.
Be responsible, but enjoy . . . Teh Pita Rita . . *G*
It’s not a cocktail, it’s a festive moment.
And I have proof.
I’ve festivated many folks, coming thru our camp, at fests.
Silly humans, they stay longer, play more music, and have more fun than they intended to. . . . and I get to pick with them.
I’m evil that way at a fest. *G*
“Cocktail? Pick a tune?”
Good morning.
News in! Hastert is to announce his RESIGNATION (he had already announced that he was not going to run for re-election in 2008).
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/PO.....eref=yahoo
No reason is given for this (possible indictment, scandal on the horizon?), but supposedly there will be a Special Election to fill out his term. I hope that John Laesch is already ready to run…I know that Blue America has already helped him build a warchest for the 2008 election.
burnspbesq @ 27
How ’bout public healthcare FOR ALL, legal or not, is a moral obligation?
Not public COVERAGE . . . but HEALTH CARE!
For all. Period.
Young, old, in between.
It’s a moral obligation to SEEK! And PURSUE!!!
I don’t hear so much about THAT one . . . I sure don’t.
But moral issues are SO easliy clouded by so many, they always fall behind when those of property and wealth begin to worry about what their property and wealth buys them . . . and costs them . . .
We need a change of values . . . the 1% have taken all of ours.
*G*
Suzanne @ 55
Smoking?
That’s brown chocolate mescaline level Alice Travels, that is. ;-)
Technicolouryawn @ 57
Heh, heh, heh.
He said appendage.
Heh, heh, heh.
Noodly is good though . . . FSM rules . . . ;-)
Mukasey seems to think that warrantless searches by the government are just peachy, as long as the evidence is not used in a criminal investigation.
`I think he would have authority to act,” Mukasey said when asked about the president’s powers to collect enemy intelligence. “The Fourth Amendment bars unreasonable searches” and “may well be much more flexible” about intelligence collection than the “gathering of evidence for criminal cases,” he said.
So would he view it reasonable when the searches are about gathering intelligence of a psychologist of a government whistleblower (Daniel Ellsberg), or what the opposition party might be planning (Watergate)? Certainly these warrantless incursions were not intendedc to acquire criminal evidence (which would have been thrown out of any courtroom), but to get information for harassment and political gain.
The 4th Amendment doesn’t restrict searches only for criminal cases, though. It holds that any search ansd seizure requires a warrant. And that history goes back to the use of warrantless search by an English king to harass an associate of a pamphleteer. Other papers were seized that had no relationship with the pamphlets, and no were not criminal evidence. Their removal was simply done to harass the plaintiff.
Suzanne @ 70
Sheer Genius. As opposed to shear genius.
Well healed, spiked in the end zone, cobbled and fitted to the foot . . and bonus points for the Ahnald N SNL linky stuff . . . good game ya got goin’ . . ;-)
G’evening everyone. Just to let the pups know that I’m alive and well downunder. The Future Mrs Downunder is nursing a bad cold but is being comforted by the the 10 Kilogram Kitty.
G’day to Persi, good night to Trex and Suzanne (and a very belated happy birthday).
Have a good night and morning everyone.
Well said Cinnamonape! Now will anyone tell the Judiciary committee in time?
TRex @ 83
Waffle. Rooty Tooty. Syrup.
I hop, you hop. BUNNY HUG!!!! (eww)
Eureka Springs @ 105
Stay tuned to this issue, it’s a forecaster for our future, for out planet.
We are SO close to bad stuff . . . and this is the trigger, the biggest trigger, at hand . . .
I swear, it’s like living out the Cuban Missle Crisis every phooking month, anymore . . . and the drama is real, other wise, I’d smile and ignore it!!!!
cinnamon @145
Thanks for that. Most disturbing.
Good morning, 68 and RAIN, blessed rain, in the area…
in trendy Blue Ridge Ga.
And I don’t know about you guys but it almost seemed as if Sen Leahy, a man I really respect, was fawning over Mukasey. His answers were not reassuring. Why is this guy getting it so easy, given the horror that was Alberto G.?
And, in lieu of conversation, heres the complete text of W.H. Auden’s “Lullabye” (also titled
“Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love”)
W. H. Auden
Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephermeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.
Soul and body have no bounds:
To lovers as they lie upon
Her tolerant enchanted slope
In their ordinary swoon,
Grave the vision Venus sends
Of supernatural sympathy,
Universal love and hope;
While an abstract insight wakes
Among the glaciers and the rocks
The hermit’s sensual ecstasy.
Certainty, fidelity
On the stroke of midnight pass
Like vibrations of a bell,
And fashionable madmen raise
Their pedantic boring cry:
Every farthing of the cost,
All the dreadful cards foretell,
Shall be paid, but not from this night
Not a whisper, not a thought,
Not a kiss nor look be lost.
Beauty, midnight, vision dies:
Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of sweetness show
Eye and knocking heart may bless.
Find the mortal world enough;
Noons of dryness see you fed
By the involuntary powers,
Nights of insult let you pass
Watched by every human love.
morning MR. Bill!
selise do you ever sleep?
You are always here, I mean. And watching the hearings is something i can only do (much less tolerate) occasionally.
MR. Bill @ 187
not nearly as much as i would like. major problems with insomnia the last few months. :(
yeah, i’m hooked on watching the hearings (and even the house and senate floor). i blame it on christy. *g*
I had seen you say that. As much as I hate it, ambien seems to work occasionally. I feel weird the next day, but only do it every 2 weeks or so.
I’ve used melatonin, Valerian, chamomile, benadryl..
yo
Zevon:
So much to do, there’s plenty on the farm
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
Saturday night I like to raise a little harm
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
I’m drinking heartbreak motor oil and Bombay gin
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
Straight from the bottle, twisted again
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
Well, I take this medicine as prescribed
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
It don’t matter if I get a little tired
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
So much to do, there’s plenty on the farm
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
Saturday night I like to raise a little harm
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
Herro raven. Looks like rain…
nyt: Senate Deal on Immunity for Phone Companies
MR. Bill @ 193
Yea, and all we’ll here is how it won;t do any good! Rotsa Ruck!
raven @ 192
Aww love Zevon, but he’s pulling yer leg.
Sleep GOOD!
I could get eight hours and still take a nap.
Sleep is the only true drug, the passport to another world, ‘knits up the raveled sleeve of care.’
I’ve had periods of depression when I wanted to sleep 10 hrs. or more.. When my late wife died, I didn’t want to wake up some days.
Selise, I hate ambien, but occasionally, it’s a blessing.
raven @ 192
Aww love Warren Z. but he’s pulling yer leg.
Sleep GOOD!
I could get 8 hours and still want a nap. And, like the political problems of the US the real solution to our drought is incremental. It’s like wanting a revolution to want a hurricane…
They would work, but the cost can be so high…
MR. Bill @ 196
I get about 6 but as we age we need less. That’s what I hear.
Sleep is the only true drug.
It ‘knits up the ravelled sleeve of care..”
After my late wife died I had real trouble sleeping. Took melatonin, valerian, benadryl, chamomile, everything herbal or over the counter.e
Ambien works but I feel weird the next day.
Now, especially after a physical day, its not so much an issue.
Good Morning. Hoping for rain in GA reminds me of growing up in New England waiting for the first snow storm. We’ve already had a few sprinkles, yahoo.
JPL, my well has been pumped dry several times, most recently when my daughter came home from college Saturday , with 5 loads of laundry(”I don’t like the laundry mat) and a very long shower…
We need some rain here bad..
MR. Bill @ 199
How deep is your well? It might be time for some of the cities to consider wells but for a community as large as Roswell, you’d probably have to drill down 500 ft.
Good morning, pups. Today in the NYT it’s Collins and Cohen. Ms. Collins (no, she’s not TOMC today) has a column called “None Dare Call It Child Care.” Mr. Cohen writes about France’s finance minister, Christine Lagarde, and her efforts to rehabilitate the concept of work in France.
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got a selection of bagels and cream cheese. It’s toasted cinnamon for the boss lady, and I think a poppy seed for me. Help yourselves, and there’s more cream cheese in the fridge. Hope your day is wonderful.
JPL @ 203
Something like 90-100 feet, an old bored (as opposed to hand dug or drilled well.)
And as I’ve posted before, I’m in a little hollow just up the road from Georgia Mountain Water, division Suntory INC (of Japan), that is pumping 100K a day as bottled spring (actually drilled well water). A Hydrologist from UGA has said it couldn’t possibly affect wells, but, as a geologist of my acquaintance told me,
“Its an understatement to say that the hydrology of the southern Appalachians is poorly understood.”
Good morning Marion, it’s oatmeal for me. Ya’ll talk it easy, I’m headed to the BF’s for the weekend, catch up Monday.
And even it it doesn’t make a difference, Glorious Rain..
Mr. Bill, I’m sure that Sonny will encourage Suntory to stop bottling water for shipping overseas until our crisis is over.
Mr. Bill:
Great news you are getting rain. We visited the southeast in Sept & it was obvious how dry it was, parched cornfields, etc. We stopped at an Alpaca farm in the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia & they were already feeding their alpacas hay. Going to be a long & expensive winter feeding them if they can even find hay sources when they run low.
NE Minn was in drought most of the summer. Many people with shallow wells went dry were on a long waiting list with the well drillers. It started raining in late August & it hasn’t stopped for long since. Pouring rain all last night & still raining. I hope that happens for all of you in the parched southeast.
JPL @ 207
The kicker is that GA has no severance taxes, so this public resource is being bottled and hauled out over a couple of old wind-y country roads, and the people of Ga. don’t see a cent…ironranger @ 208
Yeah I was noticing the flooding in the upper midwest. In ‘90 and ‘04 there was flooding here. I would almost take that over drought.
Good morning!
egregious @ 207
Morning, We are all anticipating rain here in northern GA. It might not help with the drought but at least it’s something.
Ok i’m outta here, y’all please go read poem at 185, and forgive multipleposting, I didn’t realize some stuff had gone to moderation and just kept repeating, assuming, in a caffeinated state, my provider was flaking out (it’s the phone co. and honestly,they go on the fritz every time it rains..)
Love and peace pups..
They say there’s a chance that we’ll get “scattered thunderstorms” today. My jasmine and I have our fingers and leaves crossed.
Good Morning!
glad to hear that at least some rain is gonna fall down there!
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On Washington Journal this morning:
7:20 Chris Van Hollen D-MD on SCHIPs veto vote
7:50 Erik Cantor R-VA on SCHIPs veto vote
8:30 Sheldon Whitehouse D-RI on AG hearing
Mr. Bill:
SE Minn had serious flooding (river country) & are still struggling to recover even tho our clueless leader promised “floods of money” when he visited but that’s another story.
Our area didn’t have any major flooding even when Mother Nature dumped 8 inches in one 12 hour period. Some low lying fields look like lakes but I’m really happy the ground is getting a good soaking before the hard freezing sets in.
For the Georgia firepups out there, Josh Lanier is running against Saxby Chambliss. Here’s his facebook page:
Josh Lanier on Facebook
I sent him a bit of love through Blue America yesterday. My guess is he’s gonna need all the help he can get if we have any chance of getting rid of dear, dear Saxby.
Marion in Savannah @ 213
Saxby was in trouble this summer of the immigration debate but repubs have a tendency to forgive and forget.
Sorry that Facebook linky won’t work. Let’s try a link to the Georgia candidates’ page at Blue America:
Blue America Georgia candidates
He’s got an uphill fight on his hands.
Well, I know I did that link right. In preview it works just fine… I’m baffled, and late for work.
Prince William County, VA asks police officers to do routine checks for papers and immigration status
Elliott @ 211
Wow sounds like Washington Journal is reading fdl before they figure out their topics. Should be an interesting morning. Do we know what time the override vote is?
Anybody else notice how much Willie ‘n’ Joe in the Morning resemble the bully and the toady in Gene Shepherd’s Christmas Story?
Willie sure is workin’ on his Tucker Carlson Lite persona this morning.
I know I’m a lonely little sailboat against the wind in this at the lake, but I’m already marking my DirecTV RFD channel for the return of Imus.
Van Hollen: bloggers “played a very important role” in SCHIP getting information out there and generating pressure on members of Congress.
egregious @ 220
he’s doing good.
Mornin’ all!
Prairie Sunshine @ 222
Imus would have supported SCHIP. We would have had an ally. And he would have asked every guest where they stood. He would have hammered it. It may even have made a difference.
‘xactly so.
I’ll go further. Mrs. Imus would be giving speeches about it.
BBC announces 1,800 jobs to be cut
BBC Director-General Mark Thompson told staff that 2,500 jobs would be cut, but 700 new jobs would be created.
looks like the SJC will continue the nomination hearing today… i didn’t yesterday’s, except for the very begining, but it was reported as a done deal…. anyone know why the continued hearing today?
BBC = British Bean Counting?
The culture of news as a profit source will destroy freedom of speech if it can.
More “common good,” less corporate good. ’cause corporate good’s less and less good for the common good.
New thread…
I’m off work today. It’s the end of the year “use ‘em or lose ‘em” time. I’m using them. Have an appointment at 2:30. Will be watching till then, praying for a miracle.
Mystery underwear stymies Guantanamo investigators
The investigators concluded more vigilance was needed to prevent contraband from entering the camp that holds 330 suspected al Qaeda operatives, said Capt. Pat McCarthy, the military’s chief lawyer for the detention operation at Guantanamo.
Media reports of underwear smuggling prompted snickers when it came to light last month and McCarthy admitted, “We laughed too.”
Prairie Sunshine @ 228
on the topic of corporate media in the US
Ian Welsh has a must read diary
Media Conglomerates Seek To Get While the Getting’s Good
Most likely, Dinesh D’Souza does not have a skinny ass. His face may not be obviously fat, but I feel quite confident in putting forward the theory that, in fact, his ass is entirely flabby, puffy, and large.
Good morning. Rain — yup, just came back from driving my son to work and it was pouring. And they say it will be pouring rain tomorrow too.
/snark — I caused this rain because in early September, I started watering the grass to give everything a long drink before winter. three days later the rain started, and … well I don’t have to water anymore. Everything is well hydrated /end snark
Also my morning grumble is about what used to be my favorite radio station here in MN — BOB 106.1. In the last 2 weeks they have started spewing republican talking points. I do not remember hearing anything from them before, so this is new.
1. They said the DNC chairman is sending people to NASCAR races to do research and asking that they get vaccinated before they go. They ridiculed the idea that NARCAR people are dirty, filthy - and Dean sent an email saying that asking people to be vaccinated had NOTHING to do with the trip, but they continue to foist that lie on us
2. They say that we have to fight Iraq and Iran because we want to be safe. Don’t know about you, but I feel anything but safe these days…
3. SCHIP is a) being used to give rich adults health care and their dime and 2) tax on smoking is stupid because there are not enough people smoking these days to raise enough money to pay for the program. But they would be happy to help poor children, just not rich adults. They heard this from John Cronyn of TX. harummph.
These stupid things will only be heard in rural Minnesota to give the base something to vote for next year. Yuk.
Anon @ 236
Yeah, his writing/whacking hand is the only thing in shape on his body.
Hugh @ 51
I guess you didn’t get that the argument wasn’t at issue at all, ever. The whole point was to see if you could use any argument to come around to proving God exists, so the Church would be happy.
After all, they know as well as anyone that arguments don’t create or discreate or prove or disprove anything when it comes to spirituality and deities.
Ed*ard Teller @ 93
Profound, perhaps radical and enlightening, all in one little sentence.
Bravo!
Suzanne @ 119
I suppose she favors the Iraq war though.
neokneme @ 145
Welllllll, he is talking about things as if this is an aberration and that all will return to normal. But, I think the people who set up ARMs and made all this happen feel this IS normal business. They don’t mind putting people out of their homes for profit.
Gotta be careful when you listen to the lizards, sometimes they sound human.
My favorite sleep joke:
Steven Wright wakes up and his wife asks him, “Steven, did you sleep well?”
Steven says, “No, I made a few mistakes.”