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She, like W., is a pompous, insulated aristocrat. W. has the political skills to present himself differently to people. She, emphatically, does not.

Contribute to my Cork THZ Fund, and I pour you some of the wine . . . .

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I want her to keep talking.

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When you cite to your self to support yourself, I don't think that helps your credibility.

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You're on my ignore list for the next month.

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Son, I'd like you to behave better.

And treat all your Daddies here with respect.

(BTW, nice avatar!)

What is a Real Job?
 

So when your hubby's grandpapy makes a bunch of moola by inventing ketchup, and then you marry said hubby and he dies in a plane crash and then you marry a gigaloo to spend your dead hubby's granpapie's money on and your "job" is to give away the rest of your dead hubby's grandpapie's money, is that a real job? Say compared to a teacher or a librarian who works for a living?

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I may be an asshat, but a deal is a deal is a deal.

Just a Reminder....
 

Hmm. 4 years of a jackass? A continuation of the Curse?

We live in tough times.

it all ties in
 

Ickes might actually be onto something-

http://a1356.g.akamai.net/f/1356/238...bush_kerry.jpg

they are related with lots of blueblood names in between.....

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According to Kittie Kelly, Laura Bush was known for selling some of the best pot in college. I could see that. You just know that way back in the day, W and Laura used to rip lines and fire up one-hitters in the backyard in TX all the time.

"Hey, Laura... pull out the protopipe... I just got the new Gerry Rafferty album."

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It is an excellent show.

S_A_M

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In fairness, the likely "murder" was off-screen and is the ocre of the big mystery, and I haven't noticed any drugs or physical violence. What did I miss?

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Nancy was fairly close to the button back when she was adjusting Ronnie's schedule to fit with her astrologer's predictions. The nation Survived.

S_A_M

Long Election Season
 

It's things like this that make me think we are in for a long election season:


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...er_strategy_12

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I live in Podunkville, and the reason that I can't drink on Sunday is not solely that Cotton Mather forbade sullying the Sabbath with John Barleycorn when the town was founded in the 1600s. No, the primary problem is the social conservatives. See, every so often a bidnessman gets elected to city council, and hears about all the lost revenue caused by the fact that one can't buy or sell beer, wine, or spirits on Sunday. "That's not good for our hard-working small businesses," he says, and proposes a change.

Then the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Podunkville (it ain't just the Baptists -- sometimes it's the pastor of the Evagelical Church of Jesus, or the pastor of the Liberty Christian Church, etc.) goes apeshit. He gathers the forces, and they testify at the council hearings on how sacred Sunday is, and do "we" want people going to bars instead of churches at 9 am on Sunday mornings, and shouldn't the Sabbath be kept as a day of rest?, and maybe some God-fearing people need to run for council come the next election.

And the city council members reflect upon the fact that they can get themselves in an awful lot of political trouble if they listen to the bidnessman, and so they talk about "tradition" and "if it ain't broke don't fix it" and how "we need to bring the people of the town together, and this is too divisive." And they cut the bidnessman loose.

It ain't the privacy issue. It's the idea that the government -- without a warrant or probable cause -- can get a list of everyone who bought "Animal Farm" or "The Turner Diaries" or "Atlas Shrugged."

Are you serious? That is such a classic case of attempted intimidation. The message -- we know who you are, we are watching you, and we don't like what you are doing. What else could it be? And the fact that Podunkville PD takes my picture at a union picket line, but not if I'm at the county commissioner's Blockbuster blockade tells me that some political speech is considered by the people who can arrest me as acceptable, while other speech is not. Jesus.

I'm not even talking about birth control. Simple stuff. Men and women. Women have eggs, men have sperm. The two mix when you have sex. This is how babies are born, so sex equals possible pregnancy. And diseases, some of which are not curable.

My kid knows this stuff. But her friends might not. And not only do I not want kids raising kids, I don't want them to have abortions. I don't want to pay for their ignorance in AFDC or in all of the other social problems caused by babies born to single teen parents.

But we can't explain this in the schools here.

I was unclear. Picket away, oh ye tittie haters. Yeah, I'll complain, but so be it.

My problem is that the county commissioner is doing this, constantly trying to get these movies outlawed, and in general, trying to pass laws that impose his moral beliefs on me. One or two of his ideas have passed, and the county has been sued. And lost. So, he tries to keep me from renting "Bound" and costs me money in legal fees paid to the county attorney as well as that prick in East Podunkville who gets to represent all of the bars and mail order porn places. (I bet he gets paid in movies. Bastard.)

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I admit that I did not see last Sunday's episode, but drugs do appear to be possible:

http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com...142&story=6990

aV

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Funny you should mention this (pictures of protestors/crowds etc). In Chicago, groups of local democrats are being organized go to Wisconsin for campaigning. Every saturday morning, a bunch of guys show up and get on busses and they go to Wisconsin.

Some people I know in Chicago were thinking of going and filing ["filming"? -- t.s.] these guys, their cars, and the busses at the departure point. Speculation is that some of these people may be campaigning on city or county time. Its happened before, numerous times. The thinking is more along the lines of, hey, this would make great evidence if these people are actually doing something wrong as we suspect.

Similarly, lawbreaking has been known to occur disproportionately at union picket lines, but who wants to keep the riot squad permanently deployed? Much easier to just keep a film to document the evidence. Its not like the strikers are wearing hoodies.

OTOH, I can't remember too many times hearing about politial speeches by politicians ending in violence. Except for that West Virginia republican whose kids keep getting mugged by democratic union worker supporters when they hold up protest signs.

Anyhoo, sure there's a rational justification for this. Its easier to take movies of groups of known and suspected would-be criminals before they commit a crime, than to keep the riot squads on them 24/7. This is efficient government at its best.

Do they film democratic politicians when they are speaking?

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Back in high school, I was on the newspaper staff and interviewed a dozen or so teen mothers for an article on teen pregnancy.

Of the girls I talked to, most claimed to have believed some story or another about why they couldn't get pregnant ("can't on your first time", "I'll pull out before," etc.). But most disturbing was the 15 year old who (it appeared to me) genuinely did not understand at the time of her baby's conception that she was in fact have "sex." She was, admittedly, not the brightest bulb in the drawer, but she had also never been explained the basic functioning of the human body. She knew what she was doing with her boyfriend was "bad" but not that it was going to lead to her having a baby. My school system, at the time, had basic sex ed, but allowed parents to opt their kids out, which her parents had. I understand from my mother that sex ed was recently taken out completely.

I'll agree to take sex ed out of schools when the parents can prove they've adequately instructed their children on such basic matters of living.

The story, detailing the life of a 12 year old mother and a 17 year old mother each trying to balance baby and school, with a sidebar on birth control methods, was killed by the principal. Why my crazy journalism teacher thought the school would let me run it is another story, but whatever.

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It's commonly understood in sociological and anthropological studies that people buy into it because they need to answer the question of why we die. If life on this Earth is all there is, and after that we all become worm food, then what's the point of it all? The Creator myth gives our death a reason, and, by implication, our life a reason.

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Edwin Meese?

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Well, you see, the best way to deal with this sort of fellow, since reminding him of the separation of church and State will fall on deaf ears, is the following:

March down to the next council meeting with a large pitcher of margaritas and some plastic cups. When this fellow concludes his rant, announce that you're having a backyard potluck brunch on Sunday with free bloody marys. Then offer the entire room a margarita.

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Jeezus. And people wonder why I can't bring myself to vote for these jackasses.

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FWIW, I think the criticism is wrong here. And I think the calls on Congress to not get shots unless they fall into high risk are bad as well -- as the doctor quoted by NPR put it, these folks shake a lot of hands, and are also prone to visit nursing homes and hospitals. They're walking disease vectors.

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[stp]

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I donno know about you, but I want it to be over when its over. If I wake up somewhere else and there's a whole new gig I have to deal with, I'm not going to be happy.

I'm just peachy with the notion of there being two states: consciousness and unconsciousness. I've faced serious illness. There's a comfort in thinking "Well, fuck it. Its done at least. The endorphins rush in, you halluciante and then the lights go out. If there's something else, you'll find out quickly. If not, selah."

All religion derives from fear - its the hedge against death. My favorite argument from the pious is "You cannot disprove the existence of God - therefore, my view is as valid as your atheism." Well, I can't disprove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster or that aliens visit the planet regularly either. Then, of course, the pious lecture me about "faith".

I believe in some all creating force on the logical premise that something had to start this whole gig. But I ain't crazy enough or arrogant enough to think its got some compact with mankind or there's some great repository of souls waiting for me when I finally die in a fiery wreck talking on my cell phone while trying to eat a burrito and navigate through rush hour traffic.

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If W had any integrity he would resign.

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Ten years ago, my favorite radio station didn't have to beep out the word "shit" or similar words appearing in some songs. Now they do it regularly. It's not a major intrusion in my life, but, then again, the people who forced the change didn't listen to the Clash, Pearl Jam, or Eric Burdon then and they don't now.

I find it ridiculous that a movie shown on a basic cable station has to be hacked up but if it's on HBO, it's not censored.

Five years ago, it would have been inconcievable that Jose Padilla would be locked up in prison for months without access to counsel or without being charged with a crime. I realize this isn't my daily life. But then, Jose isn't free to answer this question for himself.

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I agree with the members of Congress, but I'm not so certain that congressional staffers should be able to get to the front of the 'flu shot line as well.

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I kind of like her too. She reminds me of Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

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Many, many layers below the groundwater it pollutes. Not to get all scientific on you.

Another looney Republican Senator from Kentucky.
 

I mean, what other reason would the former judge and Senator for Kentucky say that he was "frightened to death of Bush" in an editorial unless he'd lost his marbles.

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I'm just curious. Why was I dragged into this post?

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I'm just curious. Why did you drag yourself into this post?

BTW, the answer to your post is found in your post- can you find it?

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There's also the whole "leaders of the free world" thing. I dunno about you guys, but, particularly in the event that a serious flu epidemic makes the rounds this year, I'd sort of like the heads of my (limited small) gov't to be relatively well and functioning. Above and beyond the baby-kissing, if Kerry could be expected to, like, perform his senate duties anytime soon, I'd be annoyed if HE didn't get a flu shot. I'm annoyed to discover that Bush apparently hasn't. That's just stupid.

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Good question!

How Carrollian of you, Hank!

S_A_M

P.S. He's getting nastier because he's worried about the election.

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I added something of substance to the dialogue. I realize that concept is foreign to you.

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My favorite take on this was from a 3rd grade science teacher explaining the scientific method: "The one who claims that there is a 400 foot Rocky Road ice cream cone circling the Earth has the burden of proving it, not the other way around." I hear the "can't disprove it so faith is just as valid" argument and just picture that sucker whizzing round up there.

BR(I wonder if it has a waffle or a sugar cone?)C

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I'm sure he washes his hands a lot.