Court Closed
 

Does anyone know if the Federal courts are closed Friday or Monday? Veterans day?

Deal toys. It's all about the deal toys.
 

How much do hookers charge there? I bet cheap. The savings could go into the wine.

Deal toys. It's all about the deal toys.
 

Don't forget the required bribe budget. That could cut into your ability to import the good stuff. Unless you buy in bulk (half a case for Penske, half a case for these nice men with machine guns who let the wine into the country).

Court Closed
 

In CT state courts are closed on Friday. If that helps.

Deal toys. It's all about the deal toys.
 

Maybe I could make wine? Can grapes grow there?
It could be the next Chile, which was the next New Zeland, which was the next Australia.

I could be a trailblaser!

Court Closed
 

Friday is veterans' day. it is a federal holiday. presumably they are open only for emergency filings.

PB rules
 

BTW, Jerry Kilgore should read here. He would have learned that the first person to mention Hitler loses.

Str8 bet him to win, though.

PB rules
 

I have been anti-Kilgore since his campaign for state Atty. General, around which time he stated that his opponent was not suited for public office because he had been a criminal defense attorney.

Fuck him. Ran a nasty campaign and lost, in a GOP state. Kaine was helped a lot because Gov. Warner is much more popular in Va. than Bush at the moment.

Not a good time for the GOP right now, but as Mr. Spanky says, a year is forever in politics.

S_A_M

PB rules
 

dissent. This is good. A wake up call, with the losses coming in places where there is no net gain by the Demos. NJ? They already has a demo gov (nttawwt). A demo for a dimwit. VA? Same. California? Eh, I love Spanky, platonically, but from a national perspective California is not reliable for anything but lousy activist judicial decisions out of the nattering nabob 9th circuit. Big wins yesterday might have given us a false sense of security with perhaps thin support. Instead it forces us to toughen and rouse our base.

Even the babyjesuschristsuperstar had to be rejected by his disciples before he could save us.

PB rules
 

POTY.

Culture Comes to Washington
 

This is a poem made up entirely of actual quotations from G W Bush, arranged by Washington Post's Richard Thompson. It is a
testament to literacy in the age of Every Child Left Behind.

MAKE THE PIE HIGHER!

I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
And potential mental losses.

Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the Internet
Become more few?

How many hands have I shaked?
They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.

I know that the human being
And the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope,
Where our wings take dream.

Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher!

Make the pie higher!

Culture Comes to Washington
 

Ha. G.O.

As a bookend to that post, I posted a picture of a bukkakke climaxxx over on the adult board. The pictorial representation of gobs of semen is evocative of what Clinton left behind in the Oval Office as a testament to his legacy in the morally relativistic age of "Felonies are okay, as long as sex is involved"

Spread the cream pie further!

Culture Comes to Washington
 

I've got tears in my eyes and my stomach muscles hurt. That is fantastic. Fucking fantastic.

Culture Comes to Washington
 

Sebby, please don't buy into the anti-intellectual hate. It's stupid non-substantive PoPD.

You are better than this.

Culture Comes to Washington
 

Its funny. Lighten up there, Francis.

Penske in Mourning
 

Do you laugh at funerals?

Culture Comes to Washington
 

John Kerry thought we should seek France's approval for defending ourselves. Anyone see a fault in that thinking based upon the past few weeks? Hint see oil bribe scandals and Islamic riots. Kerry did speak eloquently in making the point.

Culture Comes to Washington
 

This is nice, but doesn't make the same emotional connection. Can you try this in verse?

Penske in Mourning
 

When I'm not feverishly masturbating in the men's room.

Culture Comes to Washington
 

Hank has got some mad skillz, but I think even he may have trouble rhyming "cheese-eating surrender monkeys."

aV

Culture Comes to Washington
 

Do not misunderestimate us, Penske.

We are the pit bulls on the pantleg of opportunity!

S_A_M

Penske in Mourning
 

Ha. Just like Clinton at Ron Brown's funeral.

Culture Comes to Washington
 

As he spoke so eloquently, it should be no problem at all for you to find a cite to this.

Evolution and Intelligent Design revisited
 

I thought this article did a much more eloquent job summarizing the evolution v. ID debate than some of us had a few weeks ago. If you recall the discussion SHP and others had with Hank, I think you'll see some of the same themes below.

From the most recent Time magazine:

Evolution and Intelligent Design revisited
 

I object to the explicit assumption in the article that the Supreme Being is God. My Pastafarian beliefs are being oppressed in favor of the notion that this God, who is somehow 3 parts in one whole, but each whole is somehow complete, whatever that means, sent one of his parts down to earth to take the form of a human being born in - get this - a "virgin birth", who later was miraculously resurrected in complete health after dying an agonizing death on a slab of wood, and then conveniently was whisked off this mortal coil before the truth of all this could be established. Somehow a lot of people buy into this story. And they dare to laugh at the idea of a Flying Spaghetti Monster?

I and others have been touched by His Noodley Appendage. Ramen.

frere Jaques, frere Jaques, dormez-vous?
 

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/sto...639538,00.html

• Riot coverage 'excessive', says French TV boss
  
  One of France's leading TV news executives has admitted censoring his coverage of the riots in the country for fear of encouraging support for far-right politicians.
  Jean-Claude Dassier, the director general of the rolling news service TCI, said the prominence given to the rioters on international news networks had been "excessive" and could even be fanning the flames of the violence.
  
  Mr Dassier said his own channel, which is owned by the private broadcaster TF1, recently decided not to show footage of burning cars.
  
  "Politics in France is heading to the right and I don't want rightwing politicians back in second, or even first place because we showed burning cars on television," Mr Dassier told an audience of broadcasters at the News Xchange conference in Amsterdam today.
  
  "Having satellites trained on towns across France 24 hours a day showing the violence would have been wrong and totally disproportionate ... Journalism is not simply a matter of switching on the cameras and letting them roll. You have to think about what you're broadcasting," he said.

Say what you will about france, but it would be refreshing if our mainstream media was as honest about the liberal bias in its broadcast decisions.

frere Jaques, frere Jaques, dormez-vous?
 

Having read your postings on France for some time now, I can appreciate the difficulty that you must've had in providing even a backhanded compliment to the French, even accounting for the benefit of a slam on American media. Salut!

frere Jaques, frere Jaques, dormez-vous?
 

The problem with the "far right" in France is they are just bigots. They are against free trade so they are a complete nightmare. They are social conservative, racist, socialists. Le Pen represents everything I detest.

frere Jaques, frere Jaques, dormez-vous?
 

Well, Hank, Penske and I have great admiration for these few brave souls. If only the rest of the French thought like them.

Smart Democrats?
 

These guys are really on the ball. It is lucky for us that the majority of Democrats don't listen to them (and listen to Cindy and Howard Dean instead).


=============================================
THE NEW DEM DISPATCH, November 10, 2005
Political commentary & analysis from the DLC =============================================
[http://www.DLC.org ]

Idea of the Week: Taking Suburbs Seriously

One of the most important ingredients of Tim Kaine's victory in
Tuesday's Virginia gubernatorial election was his remarkable success
in the high-growth suburbs of Washington, DC. In county after
county, Kaine improved on Mark Warner's winning performance in 2001,
and even carried important exurban counties like Loudoun and Prince
William that haven't gone Democratic in a long time.

Political analysts have rightly pointed out that a lot of factors
contributed to this Democratic suburban triumph: a backlash against
Republican Jerry Kilgore's negative attacks on Kaine's character and
his last-minute immigrant-baiting demagoguery; the ethnic
diversification of Northern Virginia; and the unusual attention paid
by Northern Virginians to the Republican march of folly in
Washington. But aside from these factors, it's important to note
that Tim Kaine had a positive economic message to suburbanites,
especially late in the campaign, that stressed his willingness to
give them greater powers to shape uncontrolled development and all
the quality-of-life problems that go with it.

That Northern Virginians responded to this message is hardly
surprising, given the incredible traffic congestion, the volatile
housing prices, the overwhelmed public facilities, and the
environmental problems that characterize so much of daily life in
the region.

But there's an important lesson here for Democrats in other parts of
the country as well.

Remember the widespread debate in the late 1990s
about "sprawl," "smart growth," and "quality-of-life?" Well, that
debate's still going on at the grassroots in high-growth areas
throughout the sunbelt and elsewhere, and just as in the 1990s, it
offers an important opportunity for Democrats, who, unlike
Republicans, aren't ideologically opposed to public-sector activism
at the state and local levels, and don't normally think of
developers as a partisan constituency group.

This emphatically doesn't mean embracing an anti-growth message of
mandatory development controls, much less lecturing suburbanites
that they need to move back into cities, give up their cars, and
give up the entire lifestyle that made the suburbs appealing in the
first place. On the contrary: it means taking seriously the
distinctive challenges of suburban life, from overcrowded schools
and vanishing "green spaces" to two-hour commutes and rising
property taxes.

Nor, just as importantly, does "taking suburbs seriously" mean
abandoning traditional Democratic constituencies in pursuit of
upscale voters. For one thing, the middle-class wage-earning
families that Democrats rightly fret about are increasingly found in
fast-growing suburbs rather than in the cities -- young families,
and increasingly minority families, who move to the exurbs because
that's where the new jobs are and that's where they can afford to
buy a home and send their kids to decent public schools.

Moreover Democrats should be able to walk and chew gum at the same
time, dealing with the economic challenges of "low-growth" areas
like trade dislocation, offshoring, and the erosion of collective
bargaining power, along with the equally valid challenges of high- growth areas. Certainly Virginia Democrats have figured that out,
with an economic message that is rebuilding the party's strength in
struggling urban and rural communities as well as in thriving
suburbs.

As many worried Democrats noted after the 2004 presidential
election, George W. Bush won 97 of the 100 fastest-growing counties
in America. Writing these communities off, or worse yet, treating
their economic challenges as less legitimate than those affecting
other Americans, would not bode well for the party's future
prospects.

There's a better approach that could help make Democrats a truly
competitive national party, while rebuilding its strength in the
heart of the American middle class. Taking suburbs seriously is the
right thing to do and the smart thing to do. Just ask Governor- elect Tim Kaine.

PB rules
 

"In a GOP state", maybe, but replacing a Dem governor. Everyone acts like this is a reversal. This was the status quo. People elect governors, presidents, and school board members for different reasons. There, they elect dem governors.

But, eff' em', also, for that crim def comment.

frere Jaques, frere Jaques, dormez-vous?
 

Hank and Penske have never said anything that would lead me to the conclusion that they are racists. They are probably against affirmative action (or at least the brand of affirmative action that embraces preferences and quotas) but so am I. They are also not socialists. My guess is Hank and Penske don't like Le Pen much either.

frere Jaques, frere Jaques, dormez-vous?
 

You're alive! I was worried that you were in an alley somewhere, unconscious after spending two days and nights eviscertating the memory of the special election debacle with a bottle Patron in one hand and a bible in the other in some dive bar on Camino Real.

Are you still taking Ah-nold's calls?

PB rules
 

Lipstick. Pig. It would have been nice to win. Just unrealistic to expect it.

frere Jaques, frere Jaques, dormez-vous?
 

You all miss the point. i don't care if we neutron bomb their next convention- I don't care if we nuke the whole country. I like Oregon wine better than French- I like Italian wine even better. But I like that there media admits it controls it's content to meet its whims and political beliefs.

In a real model the media should simply report all and let us reach the conclusion the far right is bad.

frere Jaques, frere Jaques, dormez-vous?
 

This differs from a description of the far right in the U.S. how? Other than the funny surname, that is. Unless "Le Pen" is french for "The Bush"

PB rules
 

Generally agree, but note that VA has two GOP Senators, a majority GOP House reps from the state, and (I think a majority GOP in the state legislature.) Kaine was undoubtedly helped by a popular outgoing governor, but in a state like VA, having a Democratic politician elected is not that easily done.

Yup.

Culture Comes to Washington
 

Partially. Chirac still stands by his main principle, which is "it's our responsibility to welcome them into our society and make them a part of us, and we've fucked that up royally." I saw his weasely utterances for a bit as . . . well, . . . weasely - but really, I've sort of been impressed that he's not called out the army and steamrolled the immigrant cities. He's stuck to his main thesis well. Have to admire that. In the long run, more cars will burn, but I think he leaves a greater chance of repproachement.

I just made up that word, as I can't remember the correct spelling.

Turning Point?
 

• Jordanians flooded Amman blaring car horns and waving the nation's flag to protest the suicide attacks at three hotels with Western connections.
  
  Hundreds of angry Jordanians rallied, shouting, "Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!" after the claim of responsibility was posted.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/...sts/index.html

Culture Comes to Washington
 

I'm saving this as a file in Word. It's beautiful.