Scrooge McDuck!

neuro!

hi suzanne

hey tex

what do you call that guitar twang noise in this song?

i don’t know what the official term is - i just call it good

Reverb, I believe.

Nice Suzanne, two classics melded together.

thanks busted - i had different one planned but marcy said we gotta hold back on our bad feelings towards harry reid until after the cloture vote. come back monday to see it if he pisses me off.

good night all.

Reverb! That’s it. thanks.

Today I am reminded of this scene from Trading Places:

Billy Ray Valentine: [watches Louis clean his shotgun] You know, you can’t just go around and shoot people in the kneecaps with a double-barreled shotgun ’cause you pissed at ‘em.
Louis Winthorpe III: Why not?
Billy Ray Valentine: ‘Cause it’s called assault with a deadly weapon, you get 20 years for that shit.
Louis Winthorpe III: Listen, do you have any better ideas?
Billy Ray Valentine: Yeah. You know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.
Coleman: You have to admit, sir, you didn’t like it yourself a bit.

You have to admit. Telecom immunity sure has the administration’s attention…

pain free sleep wishes, tex

Do I hear a ,
MWAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!?

Gnite Tex.

Nite Tex

lets just say i’m rubbing my hands together gleefully and not holding my breath that harry forking reid is gonna do the right thang

I love Pink Floyd and have recently started listening to more of David Gilmore’s latest stuff.
The guy is a master.

Harry Reid = milk toast (passive agressive dickhead)

MT Wheeler or not, Harry has disappointed me to the point where he could go back to where he came from and antagonize his captive audience there.

I’m bein’ real nice here, Marcy.

mary, those are mighty fine looking girls you got there (with great goals)

I missed what Marcy said. Wadidshesay?

Thanks Suzanne. I love em.

mary, I think I’m in love…

What Suzanne said, I said the same thing in EPU’ville.

mary, at the beginning of her post downstairs:

Forget any bad feelings you may have towards Harry Reid. We’ve got three days to make sure he beats Mitch McConnell in an important showdown on FISA on Monday.

Well, their dad was a doctor.

She said we gotta be nice to Harry,
for now.

Does Harry read FDL?

They look so happy and healthy - I’d never have guessed.

Their sad secret is safe with me, ma’am.

another one for ya, Suz. I dedicate it to your restraint re Harry. ;)

HOOO!
Good one.

Harry’s underwear would catch on fire if he dropped in here most days.

Magical underwear.

Although, I am positive he has heard from a few Firedogs in his time.
Snicker.

i think harry is worried about something a little more personal than his underoo’s.

good one dosido, thanks :)

Reid prolly beat his boxing opponents to death with a wet noodle. Or they died of boredom.

Here is a little Gilmore mastery.
He amazes me and this is a great piece.
If you have headphones, crank it.

cranked my speakers LOUD and my windows are rattling. thanks busted..tis a good one for sure

Amazing , the sounds he can produce,that doesn’t need words.

Might not hurt if I spelled his name right.
Gilmour.

I can never get the GOP-ers spin down. Are they all a pack of manly men who chomp cigars and spit and fight and kill terrorists or are they gaggle of softies who can’t stand to be mocked and ignored at college?

Read this breathless take of a reportedly terrible mocking assault carried out by Al Franken against a college Republican.

Poor fella.
-G

I didn’t really appreciate Pink Floyd until later in life (ahem). I did however really really like a lunch time parody of The Wall while visiting Boston. BCN played a different lunchtime parody and they were all hilarious and had to do with food.

Hey! Butcher! Leave them cows alone!

All in all it’s just another burger to go.

I missed damn near every bit of the FISA FIASCO today,busy at work.

This is for all Floyd fans - really cool DVD.
The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon

When President Bush came to office on Jan 20,2001 well that was a weekend on Jan 22 though the Dollar was worth 1.06678 a Euro. http://www.x-rates.com/cgi-bin/hlookup.cgi

Today a Dollar is worth .6779 Euros http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=USDEUR=X

The price of Gas is now $3 a gallon in Seattle, but imagine what the price of gas would be if the Euro and Dollar had stayed equal in value.
Imagine that every 67 cents you had became a dollar overnight! $1 /3=.333 or one third, two thirds is 66 cents.
Remember the price of gas is the same in America and Europe they just tax gas more but the price before taxes is the same.
It is the value of the dollar which has dropped by one third under Bush’s Milton Friedman economic plan.

I was at the forking DMV.

Sold.

Ouch.

Well, hmmm. Franken probably doesn’t not do himself any favors by mocking a college kid, even a gooper. The kid was trying to stay out of the picture after all and wanted to be ignored. As much as I like Franken and like slapping stupid goopers around, I say Al was outta line. He could make his points more graciously.

You can not blame 9/11 for the drop in the dollar. You can blame the amount of money we are spending on Iraq though. You can blame not paying for the war and running up debt with interest at a time when we are lowering interests rates.

Me too. I was at the dr in the morning, then work until about a half hour ago. I plan to get up a little early tomorrow so I can make phone calls.

fork

Gilmour sits in the original studio with his strat and, among other things, plays the money solo along with the original master tapes… Heaven.

Let me help you there,
FUCK!

unbelievable moment in debate was when goopers tried to blame it all on Clinton. I kid you not. Just when I was impressed that Russert asked the question…the clinton bashing began. so ferriggin’ typical.

i blame boosh. and his little dick too.

Setting up my account, bastards.
I wish there was one click to fill ALL of that shit in with.

Great song!

I am going to lie on the futon, watch stupid teevee, and cuddle with Wally The Best Dog Ever. Good night all.

another thing. re manly men who don’t fight wars. I scratched my head about this when I was younger, even before iraq…I thank FDL for giving me the term chicken hawk, because I grew up with a couple and just couldn’t figure them out. The real soldiers of the family didn’t beat their chests like baboons. But chicken hawks do.

I learned me some psychology like reaction formation. But chickenhawk is much more to the point.

Nite, Mary! Nite, Wally!

night mary. and yes, you have some lovely daughters!

From the Prudent Investor at Seeking Alpha

“A Fed Funds rate of 3.50% is a most alarming signal and could lead to a stampede out of unbacked Federal Reserve Notes (misleadingly called US dollar.) Why should I lend my money at 3.50% when inflation is already running at 4.1%? Who is so stupid, except asset managers who currently pile everything into rising bond markets? This will not work in the medium or long term either.”

http://seekingalpha.com/articl.....in-the-pan

Proving that it’s all political for Old Lord McCain:

This week, McCain’s entourage is at a pricey Hilton in Deerfield Beach, thank you very much.

But he also knows how tenuous the leading role can be. “Can you imagine my political fortunes today, really, if the surge had failed?” he asked reporters aboard the bus. “We probably wouldn’t be on this bus together. I’d probably be on a Greyhound back to Phoenix.”

Not to mention those on a cargo plane back to the USA, landing at Dover AFB.

Fucker.

happy cuddlin mary (have i mentioned the fundy was named wally)

Gnite.

Newtonsur, you opened a can of worms.

Card in hand.

I meant gnite Mary.

we gotta do what we can to make sure the fucker gets the greyhound, teddy.

Newtonsur, you opened a can of worms.

Ahhh, my work is done here.

Hi All,

I tried to leave this comment on TBogg’s blog, but for some reason it wouldn’t allow me to comment, even though I was logged in.

I am severely disappointed that TBogg chose to use the word “Retards”, when meaning those who may be misguided or not intelligent. As someone who has a genetic disease that generally, but not in my case, includes mental delays and disabilities, that feels like having a knife jabbed into my heart, particularly on just a usually literate blog. And the fact that no one has called TBogg on it makes me very sad. We are supposed to care about how people are treated. How do you think you would feel if you or your family member had mental delays or disabilities? Would you want to be lumped in with those who would vote for these Republican candidates?

Sadly,
Heather

woops … that was supposed to be

“such a literate blog”

apologies,
Heather

hey heather, his blog and marcy’s and this one are all separate, just sharing servers under the fdl umbrella. if you are having trouble posting that, can you email it to him? otherwise, i’m not sure he will see it by you posting it here.

Anyone familiar with Amazon?
WTF, they only ask for my email address.
Do they send me an email asking where to deliver or what?

i am not at all encouraged by Reid’s latest kahbooki move, and i think it is nothing more than that.
it’s hard to accept that, even now only 36 senators are willing to say no to Fuckwad and President Cheney.
it seems, however, undeniably, to be the truth. all we can do is soldier on with our eyes on the prize,
but the long march has only just begun. God help us. the Congress will not. with few exceptions they are, at best, useless and mostly stupid and/or evil.

I feel the same way, Chacounne.

g’nite mary and Wally - good cuddles.

They tried to blame it on Bill? But Bush had control of the White House the Senate the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court until recently they all gave him everything he asked for on the economy.
They swore tax cuts would save us. They said don’t worry about the War Debt it wasn’t important.
But just how then did Bill messup Bush’s economy?
I might not like Hilary much but I do like what Bill did for the economy.
When stocks are adjusted for inflation the DOW was higher under Bill than it is now under Bush despite 7? years of population and I presume job if not wage growth.

Thanks, Suzanne :)

Will do :)

Sorry about that :) I wasn’t sure about the technicalities.

With gratitude,
Heather

Keep going. They will plumb you for the real goods soon enough.

Hello Heather,

I can relate to what you are saying. I know others have been called on this within FDL and usually it’s pretty civil. I don’t know if this helps, but I choose not to be offended at the term (which I have seen more and more of on blogs) because it is really a term of anger and I don’t feel it describes those that I know and love that may have fit that term in the past when it was more commonly used in an educational setting.

IOW, yes, it’s insulting. but it’s not aimed at our loved ones and it is a term no longer in everyday use to describe our loved ones like it was before. I see the anger in the word and it goes no farther in my mind, if that makes sense.

I’m not so sure I like the way that sounded.

I blame the Private schools that gave him a free ride instead of educating him. These Elite schools like to brag that the educate our countries future leaders. Apparently they are diploma mills for anybody with the right breeding as in inbreeding.

if we’re doing multiple choice, might we include the greyhound getting the fucker?

a hound’s gotta eat.

Thanks, Margot :)

With gratitude,
Heather

They were all real tools tonight. Ron Paul was the only one talking sense which was surreal given the company he was keeping.

wicked evil laugh

Amazon will ask what address your stuff should be sent to, but first they have to take the opportunity to sell you on their credit card and whatever deal they have going this week.

You know, I never really cared for Bill Clinton. I mean, everyone was all agog with his charm and crap and I just didn’t see it and I still don’t. But I did think he was quite a competent president and a smart guy. I think he did a good job.

It’s not what you know, it’s who you know…

Heather, although I see the term “retard” passing (or returning) into the casual usage dosido describes, nevertheless as a physician I cringe when I see it used.

I appreciate your telling this community of this - and I genuinely admire the constructive and erudite manner in which you did so.

PS: I’m not trying to cast any aspersions on TBogg; I also front-page here from time to time and I too have chosen words others found objectionable.

The scary thing is that Ron has the most on the ball about the economy. It is the other GOPers who seem crazy next to Ron which is a feat all by itself.
Can’t they read the polls there is a reason why voters trust Democrats more than Bush or any of the GOP Presidential Candidates on the economy.
Like after 7? years Bush has so far been wrong about everything.

how ya been heather? haven’t seen ya around much lately

I just finished two new items to my scandals list which I just sent off to selise precisely on the weak dollar and energy prices. They should be up sometime tomorrow.

getting back to harry (rubbing hands together in anticipation) i wonder what the little dick has on harry that gets him to give little dick what little dick wants.

Thanks very much, Dr. Kirk :)

With gratitude,
Heather

excellent hugh. do you think KO refers to your list for his bushed spots?

hi heather

Land deals, casino deals, his son’s land deals and casino deals. The list is endless, really.

Any thoughts on the New York Times’ (that bastion of neocondom endorsement) of Hillary Clinton and John Mccain?

Hi Suzanne :)

I’ve been up to my ears in school, my fourth semester of college after 25 years away, but doing well, thanks.

How have you been ?

With gratitude,
Heather

Hey Teddy :)

excellent hugh. do you think KO refers to your list for his bushed spots?

I don’t have cable so I really don’t know.

still trying to sell the little cottage by the creek in the redwoods and cursing the accursed boosh administration daily.

I too have chosen words others found objectionable.

Jeebus - what institution-speak.

What I meant to say:

“I’ve also used terms that caused offense.”

Apologies for the first construction - which implies when I use offensive terms, the offense is somehow the reader’s idiosyncratic response.

(My psychiatric term for that little trick is “mind-fucking”)

Once again, I’m just looking at my usage, and not casting any aspersions on other “front pagers” here…..I’ve got enough of my blunders to recall as it is…

I hope that the other GOPs will bash McCain over the head with the New York Times endorsement — “liberal media” etc. It seemed like it was working tonite at their snoozefest.

Keep up the good fight :)

I spent many lovely weekends in Eureka and Yreka and Shasta as a child, such a truly beautiful area. I hope someone falls in love with your cottage soon and gives you a great price for it.

With gratitude,
Heather

heather, i’m in the other redwoods, in the santa cruz mountains, near big basin state park.

getting back to harry (rubbing hands together in anticipation) i wonder what the little dick has on harry

Palm d’Or for the mental imagery….

(second prize: depilatory du jour)

Can’t they read the polls

This reminds me that my 25 percenter was always complaining about Clinton using polls because Mr. Twentyfive Percenter didn’t like being in the minority.

Like after 7? years Bush has so far been wrong about everything.

The only thing I can come up with that makes any sense to me is that Bush really is a selfish criminal who doesn’t care to get anything right vis a vis the American people. It’s just not a factor for him. At all. There is no wrong way to govern. He either gets what he wants or he doesn’t. He’s a government raider not an administrator.

Winning the war? Not a factor. Doesn’t matter. Keeping it going is the only thing that matters. It works for him.

Sorry, just my little rant. When I hear stupid GOP candidates talk like all this BS is supposed to make sense, I do catch some of the crazy.

Why is it the nights I have time to chat at the lake as long as I want, I’m too tired to stay awake. This sucks!

Nite, everyone. See you tomorrow. At least it will be Friday.

Woops, sorry about that.

leave it to a shrink to get into the mental imagery (laughing)

g’nite TOW