NSA
 

You see, here is the problem. If you talk to the unAmerican free-speech loving reporter in New York, the American Siberia is Nebraska.

If you talk to the Flag Waving Xenophobic Nebraskan, his view of the American Siberia is that wasteland called New York City.

So, you see, whereever they are, they're already there.

NSA
 

I think the US equivalent of Siberia is the offshore prisons/torture centers we have.

ETA where's sunnybunny? I think she'd like a vacation in Afghanistan or Pakistan or Tajikistan or whatever.

NSA
 

the only one we know of is in Guantanamo bay.

NSA
 

F Nash Bridges.

God Save the Queen.

NSA
 

From what I hear, providing a rest for Less's laptop while he posts at 3 am from Bratislava.

NSA
 

I didn't think her ass was big enough.

NSA
 

Typical TV bullshit. Everyone knows that in 1986 the guns were coming from Libya. And the "IRA guy" was probably just some poor innocent bastard on his way to Orlando on a package tour. Free the Miami One!

NSA
 

Plus, they had that whole pastel thing going.

NSA
 

Evidently you, like a majority of Americans, are happy to be her bitch.

NSA
 

Speaking of US v. UK investigative methodology, there was an interesting story on NPR this morning about DNA testing. In the UK, if there's a very close, but not exact match to DNA evidence, the investigators start looking at close family members of the person who matched. Apparently, this has led to some arrests and convictions.

In the US, the practice hasnt' become particularly widespread, because we're uncomfortable about putting people who've never done anything wrong under surveillance simply because their relative at some point submitted evidence for DNA testing.

Part of the issue is that a lot of databases are out there, especially in light of 9/11 and Katrina, and part of it is that investigators in crime labs in the US have been known to skew test toward particular results that match police theories on the case. I'm so proud to be a Houstonian...

Show me the money
 

Scalia's a low grade whore. I don't like any judicial ideologues, left or right. Those pricks are supposed to parse the law, not bend over for their constituency. I am pragmatic, and realize no judge is above being an ideologue some of the time, but people like Scalia and Ruth Bader seem to think being whores is fine and dandy. I say fuck them both with cattle prods.... Maybe that's a bit rough... maybe not.

I'd drink with Dick because Dick is no whore. A lying, chickenshit draft dodging, drunk driving elitist prick, yes. But we are talking drinking, and we are talking me, and his resume pretty much ensures a damned fun evening, even if I don't buy his politics. Decent people - decent hicks like Dick and I - could put politics aside when discussing that joy of being alive, stupid and lucky that you only understand on the highway, on a head full of malt liquor, driving a 1983 Suburban with all the windows open and "You Don't Love/Soul Serenade" pounding out of the stereo.

I would not shoot anything with Dick...

Show me the money
 

it's ironic that your dick goes off accidentally also?

How To Kill The Board Dept.
 

Announcement
 

I finally got around to seeing Hotel Rwanda this weekend.

I hate all people everywhere.

Announcement
 

Here -- focus on Amuricuns:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060515/...dit_counseling

Announcement
 

When I first started out as a lawyer, I had a client that had been bled dry by those fuckers. I've wondered for years how they keep out of jail. I guess it's the same old story. If you're poor, you have no voice.

Announcement
 

The "settlement structuring" companies who lend against future lawsuit recoveries make these guys look like angels.

Announcement
 

Which brings me back to my original point. I hate everyone everywhere.

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Tom Tomorrow
 

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There's a series of articles in today's Washington Post on teen sex, comparing the US to Europe.

I think the reasonable conclusion that one can draw is that people who are fundamentally opposed to sex shouldn't be involved in telling others how to do it.

One of the articles had some statistics that made me cringe. Also, Virginity pledges are moronic.

What's amazing to me that a group that believes that preaching abstinence is the best approach can continue to make its assertions in the face of extensive evidence that the message does not work, and, in fact, may be counterproductive.

Then again, we figured we could eliminate alcoholism by making it illegal, so what does 80 years of learning do for us?

Thats amazing to you? They believe the Bible is literal truth. That ain't like believing in the Loch Ness Monster or thinking Jim Morrison is having burgers with Jimmy Hoffa in Antigua. Thats some seriously fucked up shit. Read that thing sometime. You buy that thing as WORD and you is one f-ed up motherfucker. I'm surprised those screwheads can even figure out how to reproduce. Guess that show's Mother Nature is a tolerant creator - she makes it easy enough that even those who hate her can manage to reprdocuce.

I wonder how much guilt a King Screwhead like James Dobson feels after he mastrubates in his hotel bathroom in a moment of weakness.

You think he calls Gary Bauer and confesses?

"Garaay, I juuuzz broke down. I split muh seed upon the hand towels in the Four Seasons. It was the decadence of the brass fixtures that got me. I am a sodomite."

Don't be rEdiculous. Morrison is now a cowboy in southern Oregon.

Maybe the Bible isn't so insane.

Second Acts in American Life
 

Yes, there are.

From Gawker:

• Where’s a reporter with no credibility and a reputation for being an administration mouthpiece to go once she’s been drummed out of her former place of employ for practicing some of the most sloppy, credulous, bordering-on-disingenuous journalism that said employer has even seen, even considering the fact that it once also employed Jayson Blair? Naturally, The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page, a magical world where taxes cause cancer, the ghost of Vince Foster has risen from the grave to wreak havoc on President Bush’s poll numbers, and Judith Miller can be considered a legitimate journalist. Judy shows up today with the first of a two-parter on Libya’s nuclear ambitions. If you think that maybe the last topic Judy should be reporting on is W.M.D. then you have no idea what passes for fact in the Rightwing Funny Farm that is the Editorial Page.

Funny, yes, but honestly, what would we EXPECT Judith to write about? The woman specializes in the drums of war. Fortunately, WSJ has several extra sets left over from the 60s, so they've set Judith up in the corner with brand new mallets.

Gattigap

Second Acts in American Life
 

you're like the PB's own nfh.

Second Acts in American Life
 

See, you mean this as an insult, but given your embarrasing longing for Penske's place on this board for photoshopped images and dime-store partisanship, I know that with this comment you're simply trying to reach out for the familiar. We love you too, Hankie.

Second Acts in American Life
 

Do you think anyone returns her phone calls these days? Is this maybe why she's running with the WMD angle on a nation we just restored diplomatic relations with?

Absolutely right. He should be kicking back and assaulting people on golf courses, like Fore!-d. Or maybe walking along a beach by himself with a metal detector, mumbling, like Nixon. Shame on him - monitoring elections, funding efforts to eradicate third-world diseases - who the hell does he think he is?

Dow Hits 6 Year High
 

Dow back down.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/17/mark...ex.htm?cnn=yes

Dow Hits 6 Year High
 

I don't get "consumer confidence." the economy is bad because we're not confident that the economy will be good?

Dow Hits 6 Year High
 

Consumers who aren't confident that the economy will stay strong don't buy big durables, cars, and houses. Thirty years ago, a drop in those types of purchases would have a greater impact on the economy. Consumer confidence isn't as good a predictor in our service economy. No matter how many people are unemployed or not getting big raises, we seem to consume more than enough Big Macs and video games.

Dow Hits 6 Year High
 

And now that McDonalds takes credit cards, anything goes, baby!

Dow Hits 6 Year High
 

Son, it's like this. If I think I'm going to have a bumper crop coming, well, I'm happy to let the boys in the fields have themselves three good meals. If the crops really good, well, I'll give them an extra shirt to wear this year. So the yankee farmers and millers who send hominy and cloth down here do OK. As soon as it looks like the cotton's not coming, well, I cut them back to two meals no new shirts, so we buy a lot less hominy and only the good cloth from England that we wear ourselves. So the yankees suffer.

Dow Hits 6 Year High
 

Not exactly. the cotton could be a bad crop even if you were confident.

The economy is good unless we think it won't be. It just seems like if we had better mental discipline, and were always "glass is half full", then it always would be.

Dow Hits 6 Year High
 

Boy, if it's going to be a good harvest, I need those boys in the field strong, and that's why I give them the extra hominy. I've got to make some guess, otherwise I'd just be feeding them three square of corn all the time.

But you're right, the extra shirts are pure discretionary spending. No shirts until the cotton is in. Tell the Yankees to lay off some workers.

Dow Hits 6 Year High
 

I know what you mean. I have always believed that if my mental discipline had been better I really would have been able to fly after I took all that acid and jumped off the roof of the garage. It was my last minute doubts that sabotaged me.

Isn't the "consumer confidence" number a measure of how likely it is Americans will continue to spend money they don't have? What's the national savings rate these days? Negative two percent or something? My understanding of what's killing the Dow, et al, this week is the fear that unexpectedly high inflation numbers will lead the Fed to raise interest rates again. Which means it will be harder for consumers to borrow money to spend on cheeseburgers, SUVs and videogames. I have vowed not to look at my 401k balances until after the 30th of the month.